The misunderstanding of freedom lead to slavery and ripping apart families in Africa from the practically the beginning in order to grow a country ,so it was not constituted very well
At the rate we are going we will be the largest third world country in the world in not a too distant future. And we did all on our own.
No big surprise because the roots were not holy and moral in the first place. That Said, certain people were moral and still are but a society built on false sense of freedom id destined to fail.
I pray it does not fail completely and stand up for morality but more and more people don't want to hear it,especially the youth.
Slavery was a way of life all the way until the mid 19th century in the world and beyond, even to these days in isolated places.
No country at the time of the Declaration of Independence was free of slavery of some kind. Christian Europe retained slavery since the Church was recognized as the state institution just shy of 1700 ago. Ergo, no country could have been constituted well. The Church did nothing to stop slavery.