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by edmundsauto 1424 days ago
How do you separate out the confounders in this argument, like ww2 destroying Europe, or the natural resources available in N America?

Other countries have been very successful with other forms on basic documents. The American success may have been more successful with a document written to reflect a society without slaves, where you can travel across multiple state borders within a day, etc.

I mean, it’s a fine document and all, but can we please stop asserting without strong evidence that it’s the best ever or that it is the driving force of American success? That’s what I mean by fetishizing.

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> can we please stop asserting without strong evidence that it’s the best ever or that it is the driving force of American success

Straw man. None of this was asserted. All that was claimed is that it worked for the last century.