250 years of the United States: the discrediting of a country that no longer recognizes itself

The answers we seek in history often speak more about the present than the past. Amidst the summer heatwave of 1776, a group of men gathered in Philadelphia decided to separate from the British Empire. Delegates like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson signed one of the most ambitious documents of the era, which would serve as a beacon for other upcoming revolutions. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," states the preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence. The official date is July 4th, although the 56 delegates took almost a month to formalize the signing of the text.