Central values of Judaism and the historical experience of Jews are sources of strong Jewish support for democracy, especially in the United States, where Jews did not have to wait for citizenship and rights to be conferred on them – and possibly withdrawn. Judaism is strongly committed to the political order in the United States and to the pluralistic, dynamic civil society it helps make possible. Jews have the freedoms that others have, and those freedoms resonate with fundamental Jewish values in ways that matter even to nonpracticing Jews. Moreover, there are reasons to regard the Constitution's nonestablishment neutrality as comparing very favorably with a notion of public reason as a political approach to the question of state and church relations. Neutrality does not impose upon or require bracketing of individuals' constitutive commitments and their conceptions of what matters most integrally to them. Public reason is vulnerable to that troubling possibility.

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犹太教，多元主义与公共理性

犹太教的核心价值观和犹太人的历史经验是犹太人大力支持民主的源泉，特别是在美国，在美国，犹太人不必等待赋予其公民权和权利，甚至可以撤回。犹太教坚定地致力于美国的政治秩序以及它有助于实现的多元化，活跃的公民社会。犹太人拥有他人所拥有的自由，这些自由与犹太人的基本价值观产生了共鸣，甚至对那些不练习犹太人的人也很重要。此外，有理由认为宪法的非建立中立性与公共理性的概念相比非常有利，而公共理性是解决国家和教会关系问题的政治方法。中立性不强加于个人或 构成性承诺及其对最重要的内容的概念。公共原因很容易受到这种令人不安的可能性的影响。