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Originally Posted by Botnst
I think that education is one factor. Shared laws through a written constitution is another. The framers promoted a one-god theism as another necessary attribute.
Also, much of this cultural concept of liberal democracy is derived of course from England. That the UK is currently in turmoil while concomitantly undergoing a huge assault on the previously accepted cultural paradigm argues in support of, not in opposition to, the shared-education argument.
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Not so sure on point one, mainly because I think the founders deism (not theism) was mainly a way of pushing traditional religious law and political theory out of the debate on social and political organization.
Point two is possibly correct, although the UK has survived for a long time without the shared common college curriculum. However, it has had far more cultural homogeneity compared to the US until recently. So the argument for a shared college curriculum might be stronger in a multicultural nation (like Turkey??--with Kurds, Sufis, Alevis, Armenians, Christians etc)