ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the most fundamental or basic freedoms that the parties in the position of equal power will agree to. It examines what freedoms John Rawls thinks his parties behind the veil of ignorance will regard as most important and why, then see in what ways, if any, impartialism would vary them or justify them differently. The First Principle of Justice says that freedom is to be distributed among people so that each person has an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. Ann and Ben would agree to equal liberty of sexual preference because, as noncoercionists, each of them will want to be free to practice his or her own sexual preferences more than he or she will want to stop the other from doing so.
