If America’s System of Government is So Great, Why Haven’t We Spread It?
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6 min readJul 5, 2020
The United States has, for most of the last century, seen itself as a beacon of democracy for the world. Woodrow Wilson wrote in 1901 that the United States could provide “many excellent suggestions, valid and applicable everywhere” for the formation of a democracy. Especially since World War II, American leaders have made democracy promotion a big part of their…
