Ancient Rome was built on the Mos Maiorum (ancestral way) which included several culturally shared values that bound them together and enabled them to produce one of the greatest empires in history. In the same way, did the American founding fathers endeavor to get past their staunch differences in order to form a union? If so, what might have been their shared cultural values despite hailing from vastly different backgrounds? James explores these questions and gives examples that may have been the original American Mos Maiorum.