... the view that formal justice is unlikely to obtain in a grossly unjust society, p.60.) In fact, formal justice or 'justice as regularity' is at least one component of the idea of the 'rule of law' which we will be examining later. 2. Rawls's Two Principles The two principles (p.60). The two principles regulate the distribution of different goods: the first principle regulates the distribution of fundamental rights or liberties; the second principle has two clauses: the second clause regulates the distribution of social positions and offices (jobs, etc.); the first clause regulates social and economic inequalities more generally, including, most importantly, income and wealth, though also including diferences in authority or responsibility, or chains of command (p.61). These principles are lexically ordered. The general conception (p.62). This just requires that the distribution of 'social values', here listed as including liberty, opportunity, income and wealth, and the [social] bases of self-respect, ...

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