Publication

This paper discusses the role of public reason in US politics. It first invokes Rawls' exemplar of public reason, the Supreme Court, and discusses how the high bench deploys ambiguous arguments as it adjudicates radical disputes. The authors then focus on how participants in the radical dispute over same-sex marriage rely on ambiguous appeals to the 'American Dream' that, according to them, mirror the sort of incompletely theorized forms of reasoning used by Supreme Court justices.