Browsing: Which birthday we choose to celebrate will define the next stage: America or USA. They are not the same. But perhaps we can build a bridge joining the two

       America was formally born on July 4, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence, but the USA was not born until September 17, 1787 when the Constitution was adopted. America was born of revolution and a claim that god created human rights and government’s job was to preserve those rights, and any government that violated the peoples’ god-derived rights was not long for this world.