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		tayo42 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How each pillar of the First Amendment is under at... I was under the impression the US became a world leader mostly because of being in the right place after WW2. It wasn't really a leading country before that?

starchild3001 6 months ago [–]

Read some Adam Smith (1776 -- Wealth of Nations). How highly he talks about America back then. It was always leading economically.

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