Every aspect of our lives, as individuals and as networks of families, communities, and nations is meaningful, purposeful, and valuable despite every fearsome appearance to the contrary.
This core spiritual value, whether arrived at through religious belief or secular contemplation is the essential glue that binds us together as a pluralistic, free, American citizenry.
It cuts across all societal distinctions, whether religious, political, economic, ideological, ethnic, or racial.
We are a nation founded not on any of those distinctions but on common ideals found in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights and continues to be formed in the historical dialogue with those ideals as expressed in
This citizenry is the foundation of our civic and business interests which, in turn, function to amplify the voice of individuals to petition their representative and limited governments and to serve as a check on government overreach.
But at its foundation, we are free individuals in the context of being citizens bound to each other in a pluralistic society that, nonetheless, holds certain truths to be self-evident.
See An American Civil Ideology & 100 Milestone Documents (w/links to the National Archives)
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