Duodecim Probitates 

America is not just a government institution in North America but a cosmopolitan concept:

1. where reciprocity and equal treatment is exercised by all,

2. where rights are discovered and protected via an amending process,

3. where happiness - consisting of welfare, security, and liberty - is the purpose of government,

4. where there are no hierarchies with titles of divinity nor nobility but instead a collection of fairly and freely elected representatives with limited power and scope who are frequently replaced,

5. where the structure of governments have their powers separated; where those powers are checking and balancing each other constantly,

6. where science is promoted freely to all, where innovation and the wealth produced by that innovation does not stifle equality but instead provide the means to it,

7. where the betterment of the well-being of everyone is sought after before the frivolous extravagance of licentious selfishness and ambition of arrivistes,

8. where patriotism is not the worship of symbols and demagoguery of idols but the giving of hearts and minds to these principles,

9. where laws are not made to spite the people but to increase their happiness and restrict vice via education or rehabilitation so that the necessity of punishment is a rarity,

10. where representation should not be determined by the similarity of lifestyles, class, race, sex, creed, culture or nativity, but by their devotion to their constituents in public stewardship and that their probity includes these ideals,

11. where the governments on every level and the people recognize, respect, and protect the civil rights of the individual and the granted rights of the government,

12. and where consent of the governed means all people are constituents who must have suffrage to all of the highest offices of government in order for those governments to be legitimate.