We had to show the world ... because it was time to make these things happen. And we did.
We had to figure out the concept of "separation between church and state." Our Constitution and the Bill of Rights started out as an idea, and not everyone was ready to listen. Even the idea of electing our own leaders was a completely new concept.
The three branches of government - executive, legislative, judicial - didn't happen overnight. It was slowly devised after many false starts over many years. It took a whole generation before Americans were ready to embrace the concepts of democracy and self-rule.
So many mistakes were made along the way. So many ideas were tried out and discarded for one reason or another. Justice Sotomayor is right ... a lot of Americans don't understand ... because they haven't been taught Civics properly.
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