Who Gets to Claim 1776?
If the republic is to last another 250 years, Americans need to see themselves in its origin story.
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Who Gets to Claim 1776?If the republic is to last another 250 years, Americans need to see themselves in its origin story.Lindsay M. ChervinskyJun 30, 2026Share(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Shutterstock)MOST REPUBLICS FAIL by 300 years. For the United States to survive another 250, Americans must care about our revolutionary inheritance and what it actually means. This July Fourth offers an opportunity to encourage Americans to see themselves in the revolutionary story, to embrace the founding legacy, and to launch a civic renaissance.We are the only nation in the world based on an idea. There was no roadmap to follow without the shared ethnic, racial, or religious base underpinning other nations.
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