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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement John Rawls
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

For further reading kindly see the AHRC publication Gyges' Ring – the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. Taking back/reworking aspects of A Theory of Justice, I.e. Rawls' difference principle of distributive justice as articulated in Justice as Fairness: A Restatement requires that the only permissible economic inequality is that which maximizes the benefit to the least well-off. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition–justice as fairness–and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the 19th century. Inserting public reason/overlapping consensus stuff while removing the Kantian basis of Justice as Fairness, in Political Liberalism/Justice As Fairness: Restatement. Might be interesting: Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Its publication date is 2001 and it appears to be a response by Rawls to his critics. (The references to John Rawls has been from Justice as Fairness – a restatement – John Rawls edited by Erin Kelly). Procedural justice is considerably the easier to deal with, Involving as it does, relatively technical questions such as due process, fair trial and equality before the law. I just stumbled on this book on Amazon. At the time slightly more faithfully (still: to understand Rawls' later work, one needs to read his Political Liberalism (John Dewey Essays in Philosophy) and, perhaps, also his (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement).