Founded on Religion

Declaration of Independence inferring that there is a natural law created by greater power.
Spiritural idea of Community, deeper meaning of human equality= that is democracy, beyond voting. All are equal under God, we all are part of some common greatness.
Founded on inner freedom.
No happiness without virtue. Pursuit of happiness is virtual happiness, Not egoistic statiscactiong, BEING WHO YOU AUGHT TO BE AS A HUMAN BEING.
----> Nature & God, to love, etc.
Constitution allows America to correct itself.
Conscience is at the heart of democracy.-- Natural Law

I was going to make this into a post about Natural law, but I didn't remember enough about it. So instead I'm going to make sense of those notes above.

It seems like this program was asserting that America was founded on spirituality, though not necessarily religion. There's a deeper idea of community rooted in Americans (as there should be between all people) that we all should be guaranteed equality because we're human. It's within this radically simply equality that democracy flows from. It's very much the promotion of an individual, but in a communicative sense. Within this greater network of humanity, under the rules of a natural law true to all humans we are bound together.

Freedom and happiness also take on more spiritual forms. Freedom is more of a freedom of spirit, and happiness is not hedonism, but virtue (wouldn't Franklin be happy?). There are spiritual truths that we are meant to pursue with our freedom in order to find happiness. Through that, we may discover our deeper selves. It is a freedom to become who we are truly meant to be- the freedom I pressed so strongly to promote last semester.