:Based on Rawl's justice: In a well-ordered [[democracy]], political debate is organized around alternative conceptions of the public good. So an ideal pluralist scheme, in which democratic politics consists of fair bargaining among groups each of which pursues its particular or sectional interest, is unsuited to a just society<ref>Rawls, J. (1971). A Theory of Justice (Cambridge. Mass.: Harvard University.p360-361</ref>Citizens and parties operating in the political arena ought not to ‘take a narrow or group-interested standpoint’ (p. 360). And parties should only be responsive to demands that are ‘argued for openly by reference to a conception of the public good’ (pp. 226, 472).Public explanations and justifications of laws and policies are to be cast in terms of conceptions of the [[common good]] (conceptions that, on Rawls’s view, must be consistent with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWpvpgZY9g two principles of justice]), and public deliberation should aim to work out the details of such conceptions and to apply them to particular issues of public policy (p. 362).