TY - BOOK AU - Rawls,John TI - The law of peoples: with "The idea of public reason revisited" SN - 9780674005426 AV - JZ1242 RAW PY - 1999/// PB - Harvard University Press KW - International relations KW - Philosophy KW - Social justice KW - Social contract KW - Liberalism KW - Toleration N1 - Includes an index; The law of peoples. The first part of ideal theory ; The second part of ideal theory ; Nonideal theory ; Conclusion -- The idea of public reason revisited N2 - The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the principles that should be accepted as the standard for regulating a society's behavior toward another. In particular, it draws a distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy ER -