The fundamental, foundational point of American principle is the ownership of private property - a person's body, land, family, etc. The second fundamental, foundational point is and has to do with the relation of each person and his/her property to everyone else and their property. The third is the relationship of people and their private property to the usage (by any/all of them) of public property - property belonging to nobody. The fourth is fair and equitable adjudication between people when someone believes that his/her property has been infringed on by someone else, or by the rules set down by the group regarding the combined use of public property. --- Until all people see and understand these basics, there can be no national agreement.