PART ONE: POLITICAL LIBERALISM: BASIC ELEMENTS: Lecture I. Fundamental ideas -- Lecture II. The powers of citizens and their representatives -- Lecture III. Political constructivism -- PART TWO: POLITICAL LIBERALISM: THREE MAIN IDEAS: Lecture IV. The idea of an overlapping consensus -- Lecture V. Priority of right and ideas of the good -- Lecture VI. The idea of public reason -- PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: Lecture VII. The basic structure as subject -- Lecture VIII. The basic liberties and their priority -- Lecture IX. Reply to Habermas -- PART FOUR: THE IDEA OF PUBLIC REASON REVISITED: The idea of public reason revisited (1997).