the basic political ideology for which the United States of america stands is democracy—as abraham lincoln put it, “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” The concept of equality, as stated in the U.S. Constitution, includes race, creed, color, gender, age, national origin, and disability. For a democracy to function, its educational policy must involve educating citizens to discuss and compromise on issues pertaining to them as individuals and as a group to select competent leaders to rule by the will of the majority to evaluate the equity of the rules as well as the leaders’ implementation of them