Lipset's American Creed
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Liberty. Egalitarianism. Individualism. Populism. Laissez-faire.
These five concepts embody the "American creed" as described by author Seymour
Martin Lipset. Lipset feels that this "American creed" is representative of an
ideology that all Americans share. Lipset's argument is on shaky groun ....
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.... of the master's will" (Huggins xiv). Indeed, this
suggests that the Founding Fathers had an "out of sight, out of mind" mentality
towards the issue of slavery.
While Huggins understands why the Founding Fathers may have elected to
ignore the issue, he hardly thinks that it was a good idea. "It encouraged the
belief that American history-its institutions, its values, its people- was one
thing and racial slavery and oppression were a different story" (Huggins xii).
He reinforces this idea b ....
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