Abstract
The United States is an idea sustained through argument, but what, indeed, is the argument about? Put simply, the argument is whether or not a representative democracy can be developed and sustained on a grand scale. From its beginning, this nation has been in dispute over the merits of democracy and whether or not it is possible to have a nation the people, for the people, and of the people. At a deeper level, the argument is over values. That is, the history of the United States can be seen as a persistent debate carried out by citizens' discourse over four sets of value tensions:
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