REBUTTAL: American Exceptionalism Isn’t A Bad Thing
As a nation, the United States of America was established upon a set of principles articulated in the Declaration of Independence—namely, the equality of human beings and their possession of certain “inalienable rights.” At its founding, these principles were unique to the United States. More than anything else, it was they that separated its government from those of its contemporaries. Far from hindering the United States, ideals like the universal right to life, liberty, an