Arguments against Ronald Dworkin's liberal egalitarianism

In A Matter of Principle (1985), Ronald Dworkin discusses the role a political morality should play in decisions about when the law should be obeyed and enforced, and even what law is. Noticing that liberalism was once a quasi-consensus theory in Great Britain and the United States - and, therefore, a natural candidate to that role in those countries - Dworkin argues that the loss of that status is due to an alleged failure of liberal political theorists to identify a kind of egalitarianism as the constitutive principle on which liberalism is based. My aim in this paper is to advance arguments against such an influential claim that a certain egalitarianism would be the constitutive principle of political liberalism.