According to John Rawls:

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John Rawls believed in the idea of 'basic liberties' which encompassed the most fundamental and essential rights that every individual is entitled to. He believed that everyone should have equal access to these basic liberties, which could only be limited in order to ensure that everyone else's basic liberties were protected as well. Thus, he proposed that each person should be permitted the maximum amount of basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others, making option A the correct answer.