What is America? What is America? Today this question may be answered in many ways. Some of the most common answers, however, are usually associated with democracy, equal rights, or major league baseball. Now, although this is a relatively simple question, it does not deserve such a simple answer. These three institutions that we take for granted did not always exist in the form that they do today. They arrived at their present form only after years of struggle and battle. For example, when the British originally held America in the form of the Thirteen Colonies, America was a mere string in the imperialistic web woven by the British. Americans could not elect a representative to the Britis