America is one of the greatest experiments to have ever been attempted. Despite her flaws, no other country has given such a diverse group of people the greatest liberties and opportunities as that of the great American dream. But what made America so great? And who were the people behind the ideas that founded America on a structure that would make America the greatest world power ever conceived? Although Aristotle and Shakespeare did not directly influence how America would be structured, the literature preserving their thoughts had a tremendous effect on the Western world, and particularly on Americans. But as valuable as their thoughts were to the Western world, and America in particular, we must still put their thoughts under the scope of Scripture, for Scripture alone can be trusted as the source by which we measure all that is said, compelling us to hold fast to all that is true, and demanding from us to reject all that is false.