Originally Posted by
gugi
I most certainly understand that it is complex and have not denied anybody credit. You are extrapolating my words into something that I didn't say. My statement was that US does not have some special moral superiority that was being implied. The world in 18th century was not isolated countries - ideas were flowing pretty quickly around and the same questions that the US founders were trying to answer were asked and answered in many other places. Slavery being one of the big ones, and more generally human rights, the organization of government and so on. US got a chance to make a big sweeping change in the government structure, it did things that for others took decades and even centuries to accomplish, other things others accomplished much faster than US did.
I mean you know all of this anyways.