 Deciding who merits a public justification requires explaining its point. For Quong and others, public justification renders consistent our fundamental political ideals. Examples include the idea of society as a system of cooperation and persons as free and equal. For Gaus, public justification establishes moral relations between natural persons (Gaus 2011). These relations are ones of equal respect. But they also lay the foundation for closer ties of trust, love, and friendship.