The core ideas
Principles of a new civic model
Four commitments hold the model together.
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Governing for coexistence
Elected officials are judged by their ability to design non-zero-sum policy, not merely to assemble winning majorities.
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Law governs harm, not moral uniformity
Coercion protects against violence, fraud, and theft — it does not enforce the moral preferences of majorities on citizens who disagree.
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Institutional routing of disagreement
Some moral questions are removed from state control and routed to the family, the religious community, or civil society — where they belong.
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Freedom with structure
Pluralism is not chaos: a non-negotiable floor of basic rights, above which genuine diversity is free to flourish.