"A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on."

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Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.

— John Stuart Mill