What is exceptionalism?

The People's 

Proclamation

Of Sovereignty

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What is Exceptionalism?(Socratic Teaching Method of learning rather than training)
What is formal exceptionalism?  What is informal exceptionalism?
(Platonic "Theory of the Forms" or "Best Principled Statements.")

What is Patriotism?  

Wikipedia:  Patriotism is, generally speaking, cultural attachment to one'shomeland or devotion to one's country, although interpretations of the term vary with context, geography andpolitical ideology. It is a set of concepts closely related to those ofnationalism.

What is Nationalism?  

Wikipedia:  Nationalism is a belief, creed or political ideology that involves an individual identifying with, or becoming attached to, one's nation. Nationalism involves national identity, by contrast with the related construct of patriotism, which involves the social conditioningand personal behaviors that support a state's decisions and actions.

What is Culture?

Culture (Latin: cultura, lit. "cultivation"^[1]) is a modern concept based on a term first used in classical antiquity by the Roman orator Cicero: "cultura animi" (cultivation of the soul). This non-agricultural use of the term "culture" re-appeared in modern Europe in the 17th century referring to the betterment or refinement of individuals, especially througheducation. During the 18th and 19th century it came to refer more frequently to the common reference points of whole peoples, and discussion of the term was often connected tonational aspirations or ideals. Some scientists such asEdward Tylor used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity.

In the 20th century, "culture" emerged as a central concept inanthropology, encompassing the range of human phenomena that cannot be directly attributed to genetic inheritance. Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings:

1. the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and
2. the distinct ways that people, who live differently, classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively.^[2]

Hoebel describes culture as an integrated system of learned behavior patterns which are characteristic of the members of a society and which are not a result of biological inheritance.^[3]

Distinctions are currently made between the physical artifacts created by a society, its so-called material culture, and everything else,^[4] the intangibles such as language, customs, etc. that are the main referent of the term "culture". 

Lawless people devise laws for others to obey; meanwhile, in stark contrast, lawful people live by a higher order. As I've often said, the simpleton leaders of today accept the notion of law first, as if there is some kind of beauty in the law for the sake of law, and then order as a vague afterthought.  But in the New World of the United States, a new order was first declared by our Founders as a whole new foundation.  This divorce from Old World Tyranny required new laws to be erected upon the natural law or new order established by our Founders.

Indeed, this is exceptional beyond the normal that exists outside of the borders of the United States.

Furthermore, chaos is established when rebellious, lawless leaders reference the in-born natural abilities of their own greatness arguing eloquently that such is a foundation sufficient enough for us to stand.  Meanwhile, lawful leaders stand upon a foundation which has been both long suffering and persevered by our ancestors.  Therefore, the greatest of benefits are truly derived from the most precious of alterations.  A person's face represents authority after all.  This means helpful change concerning the people travels at a speed of recognition.  The father recognizes the face of his son, the son his father.

My own father cherished the foundation our Founding Fathers established.  Profound in realization, as his son, I could never be greater than he as I was born out of him.  Yet, and here is the trick, when one combines our own inferior condition with the love our Founding Fathers left for us as our inheritance, we develop the potential to become greater than they.

Indeed, just as the endeavor of the law is a means to an end becoming a necessary evil in society for a great Civil Purpose, we all prosper because most learn to live by a higher order.  Again, the obtaining of this higher order is indeed exceptional on the phenomenal level.

Our Founders did not intend for us to have to suffer as they once had to do so in a legal world of tyranny.  This tyranny has always utilized the false dichotomies of male versus female, young against old, rich against poor, black versus white, and so on, as lies to deceive the people.  

As we the people of these United States are truly exceptional, only the most ignorant among us will use the term "exceptionalism."