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Episode 12 - American Exceptionalism (Part 2)

This episode begins our conversation about the distinct American culture: the values, perspectives, attitudes, and actions by individuals that collectively form our culture. The Founders had specific thoughts about how to sustain their experiment of a self-governed society and they concluded that it was not the systems they put in place that organized the society that would effectively stand against tyranny, it was, and is, the culture that would be the strongest barrier to a return to a Ruler-Subject form of social order.

How do economic systems influence the behavior of people within their society? This lesson examines how different economic systems promote vice or virtue, and whether or not the American economic system aligns or contradicts the principles of the Declaration.

Throughout history different societies have had different economic systems, but the differences in these systems were in fact, quite small. This episode discusses the different forms of economic systems, how they work and how they impact the people within the society.

Once the Constitution was adopted and our governmental systems were put in place, the Founders had the task of creating an economic system that would fulfill the Principles of the Declaration of Independence. The result was an entirely new system based on new ideas about how individuals can prosper and thrive; "The Pursuit of Happiness." Learn where these ideas came from and how they were put in place.

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