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.