1. Stare deeply into my eyes. You will become a patriotic American.

2. Public Policy Paper selecting a research question, finding sources and building a bibliography, conducting research to answer your policy question, formulating a policy recommendation based on your research, and crafting a lucid argument in support of your recommendation.

4. Culture Defined “The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. “These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty. “These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture, [political culture].” – American Heritage Dictionary

5. Political Culture: What do Americans believe in?

6. Freedom/Liberty Equality Democracy/Self-government Political Culture: What do Americans believe in?

7. Freedom/Liberty freedom to act personal autonomy Equality fair treatment and equal opportunity Democracy/Self-government popular sovereignty government of, by, for people Political Culture: What do Americans believe in?

8. Freedom/Liberty freedom to act personal autonomy Equality fair treatment and equal opportunity Democracy/Self-government popular sovereignty government of, by, for people Political Culture: What do Americans believe in? Individualism

9. Crazy for Freedom?

11. Freedom/Liberty freedom to act personal autonomy Equality fair treatment and equal opportunity Democracy/Self-government popular sovereignty government of, by, for people Political Culture: What do Americans believe in?

12. democratic constitutional free market Characteristics of America’s Governing System ala Patterson Characteristics of each? Loci of power?

13. democracy (people govern either directly or through representatives) responds to numbers--majoritarian constitutionalism is a set of rules that restricts the lawful use of power (limits on the power of governments over citizens) responds to rights--minoritarian capitalism (free enterprise and self-reliance) responds to wealth–plutocratic America’s Governing System ala Patterson

14. democracy (people govern either directly or through representatives) responds to numbers--majoritarian constitutionalism is a set of rules that restricts the lawful use of power (limits on the power of governments over citizens) responds to rights--minoritarian capitalism (free enterprise and self-reliance) responds to wealth–plutocratic Rules of American Politics ala Patterson All three rules of the game are based on the free choice of free individuals & thus consistent with our core belief in individualism.