American Political Culture
nA. Shared
values
nLiberty
nEquality
nIndividualism
nDemocratic consensus-Majority
rule, Two-party system and regular
elections, Popular sovereignty
n-Americans differ over what certain constitutional
provisions require or over the
meaning-Freedom of Speech (Books that contain dangerous ideas should be banned from public
school libraries)
nAmericans honor many of these rights more in the
abstract than in the
concrete.