 But the public reason tradition provides grounds for both approaches. Rawls seems to have combined the two approaches. Rawls looks like a consensus theorist in the “freestanding” stage of political justification. He (2005, 12) says that citizens should use shared reasons to converge on a political conception of justice. But in the “overlapping consensus” stage, Rawls leaves justification “to each person.” Each person must sync the political conception of justice with their comprehensive doctrine, and the public adopts no single comprehensive doctrine. Rawls included both accounts of justificatory reasons in his view, yet while the combined view is attractive, many writers feel compelled to reject it.