 As with the individualist restriction, we might wonder whether the admission of impartial reasons effectively abandons the spirit of contractualism. If every present person has the same impartial reasons, and if those reasons cannot outweigh any individual’s personal reasons, then the resulting more impartial formulation of contractualism will converge with rule consequentialism. But does this result tell us anything interesting about Scanlon’s contractualism? More generally, will the resulting theory retain the distinctive features of contractualism that appeal to those who are unsatisfied with familiar alternatives such as Kantian ethics or rule consequentialism?