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It's an popular but somewhat odd view, Sarah, that America is a young country and European countries are old. In fact, America is one of the oldest nations in the world as far as maintaining it's basic form of government consistently over a long period of time.
A quick example. Though there have been Russians living in the land which we now call Russia for a very long time the country we call Russia is only little more than a decade old formerly being the USSR, of course. Many nations of the world have gone through similar dramatic changes but just didn't change their name.
I believe the US has the oldest written still-in-action constitution of any nation on earth and it's form of government was not interrupted by revolution, war, or socialist and communist ideals
which in one combination or another happened nearly everywhere else. The twin circumstances of tempered success and geography playing large roles in that.
One could point to England's common law constitution as older and I would agree. In fact, the US system of law and government grew straight from the English one. The English system has been remarkably stable.
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