1. predominantly Catholic countries were not liberal democracies. By 2000 they were. The Islamic world may well follow a similar path, though if it does one hopes it will be in response to historical developments less threatening than those that unfolded in the 1930s. But even if it does, the form of the problems that Rawls addresses in Peoples (and Political Liberalism) remain. good of both human beings and bodies politic as such;that the Catholic Church began to make peace with liberal democracy and modernity more generally, culminating a few decades later in Vatican II,1900
2. Hume's System: An Examination of the First Book of His Treatise, by David Pears. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Reviewed by David A. Reidy, Jr., University of Kansas
3. The Law of Peoples;John Rawls;See Part II. ii Ibid,1999
4. Henry Shue, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2nd ed., (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996) pp ix+236.