The document that institutionalizes American ideas is "the Declaration of Independence".
<u>Explanation:</u>
The Declaration of Independence (DoI) and the Constitution are documentation that provide the idealistic pillars for the United States' democratically elected government.The independence or DoI, provides a framework for the principles of popular sovereignty, the notion that government is needed to serve the public who elect a leader to convey their desire.Whereas the Constitution of U.S illustrates its government program's blueprint, which seeks to equalize freedom of the individual with law and order.
Concerning contemporary cases about the establishment clause, the defining point in determining constitutionality in Van Orden v. Perry and McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky seems to be that of
secular versus religious purposes.
For nearly the first 100 years after the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court interpreted the equal protection clause to
permit a system of segregated social facilities.
