A lot of money is spent in order to propagandize Americans into thinking they’re living in the greatest country in the world ™, and the weird veneration of the founding document, and the people who wrote it is a big part of it.
There’s a lot of historical perspective you’re overlooking. The Roman Republic was a relatively advanced society with a republican democracy founded in 509 BC. After the republic fell in 44 BC it wouldn’t be for another 1,800 years that we got democracy again in 1776 in the USA. The constitution borrows ideas from famous liberal scholars like John Locke, Rousseau, John Stuart Mill to create a system that would not under the letter of the law let democracy die ever again.
A lot of money is spent in order to propagandize Americans into thinking they’re living in the greatest country in the world ™, and the weird veneration of the founding document, and the people who wrote it is a big part of it.
There’s a lot of historical perspective you’re overlooking. The Roman Republic was a relatively advanced society with a republican democracy founded in 509 BC. After the republic fell in 44 BC it wouldn’t be for another 1,800 years that we got democracy again in 1776 in the USA. The constitution borrows ideas from famous liberal scholars like John Locke, Rousseau, John Stuart Mill to create a system that would not under the letter of the law let democracy die ever again.