With the passing of America's 199th birthday and with preparations being made" of the coming bicentennial celebrations. one largely overlooked fact is that the United States is the world's oldest surviving republic and one of this planet's oldest continuing governments. Even more remarkable than the political stability of the American republic is its unprecedented economic success. Americans enjoy, on a mass scale, material well-being undreamed of even by the royalty of bygone days.
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