Ideal Legislators Do Not Vote Their Interests.

How Did Madison Get Separation Through Virginia And Later Congress? The Baptists, The Presbyterians, And The Smaller Sects Hated Jefferson; To Them He Was A Secularist Of The Worst Kind. But Madison Could Get Jefferson's Bill Passed Because The Baptists, The Presbyterians, And Smaller Sects Who Were Excluded In New England And In The South Got Together For Their Own Protection.

An Intolerant Sect Has No Right To Complain When It Is Denied An Equal Liberty... A Person's Right To Complain Is Limited To Principles He Acknowledges Himself.

You Hear That Liberalism Lacks An Idea Of The Common Good, But I Think That's A Mistake.

It Is Of First Importance That The Military Be Subordinate To Civilian Government

A Comprehensive Doctrine, Either Religious Or Secular, Aspires To Cover All Of Life. I Mean, If It's A Religious Doctrine, It Talks About Our Relation To God And The Universe; It Has An Ordering Of All The Virtues, Not Only Political Virtues But Moral Virtues As Well, Including The Virtues Of Private Life, And The Rest. Now We May Feel Philosophically That It Doesn't Really Cover Everything, But It Aims To Cover Everything, And A Secular Doctrine Does Also.