 Free and equal citizens in a modern society enjoy rights to both public and private autonomy. Each citizen must have rights securing their freedom to participate in the formation of public opinion and in society’s collective decisions (public autonomy), as well as rights guaranteeing their freedom to decide what way of individual life to pursue (private autonomy) (Habermas 1996). The importance of these two dimensions of modern citizenship derives from what Rawls calls “the two moral powers” of personhood: the capacity to have and act from a sense of justice and the capacity to hold, revise, and act from a conception of the good (1995: 164; 2001: 18). Persons stand as free and equal citizens when their society and its political system accord equal and due weight to the interest each one has in the development and exercise of their own moral powers.