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There sure are a lot of people who would like to see it fail. I wondered why
it was called The Great American Experiment. Is this a satisfactory answer?

JIm FRedrickson
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Before 1780 the form of government in the US, a democratic constitutional republic with a severly limited central government had never been attempted before. During the war of 1812, there were significant doubts such a government could survive. The US consists of states, joined together. Nthe states have full (pleanary) police power. The federal government’s power is limited to 16 powers listed in the constitution. On top of that one branch of the government makes the laws, another branch intreperts the laws, and a third branch enforces the laws. Congress makes the laws. The president cannot make laws. Only congress. Congress actually has much more power than the president.

In the US, the citizens are considered soverign. Neither the federal government, nor the state governments are considered soverign.

The US is not a nation of people with a single culture, a single religion, a single ethnicity, nor any single belief. As a result, maintaining a citizen-supported government is very difficult. The nation almost split in 1860, an extremely bloody war resulted. The citizenery has never agreed on the things we consider immoral and unlawful. We do agree on the majority of items—but on the fringes, there is no agreement. For example there is wide agreement that murder and rape are immoral, but very little agreement on drug use or abortion.

The US started out as a never-before-tried experiment. We’ve been at this for 240 years. We still don’t know if the experiments will work long term. We hope it will.

https://www.quora.com/

Or is it called an experiment more because George Washington saw it as that ..
https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/the-great-experiment .