Self Governance

We take this idea for granted because it is the norm for all of us here. However the idea that people are sovereign unto themselves, with the ability to elect and employ those folks to carry out their collective will is still a relatively new idea in human history.

entrepreneurship

We often take this for granted too, but it is the ability to choose to work directly for one's own benefit that has led to almost every major innovation in the last 200 years.

the absolute nuclear family

The concept, which originated with Germanic tribes during the Roman empire, and passed on to England during the middle ages, is in large part responsible for the rapid rise of the US to pre-eminent world power. Our political/social/and economic structures our founded on the ANF.