From lobster races in Maine to a golf cart parade on Catalina Island and a lumberjack competition in Pennsylvania, Americans spent yesterday celebrating our nation’s independence. President Trump, speaking before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, declared: “We will never forget that we are Americans and the future belongs to us. The future belongs to the brave, the strong, the proud and the free.”
Two hundred and forty-three years ago, fifty-six brave men pledged “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor” to adopt the Declaration of Independence. Their act that day in Philadelphia changed the course of the world. The United States became the first nation in history to be founded on an idea: the principle of freedom.
From then to today, America has been an exceptional country.
Is this a God-given fact? If so, why?
I researched that question recently. Here is what I found.
Our God-given geography is exceptional.
The Greater Mississippi Basin with the Intracoastal Waterway has more miles of navigable internal waterways than the rest of the world combined. This is important because transporting goods by water is significantly cheaper than over land.
The American Midwest is the world’s largest contiguous piece of farmland. The American Atlantic Coast possesses more major ports than the rest of the Western Hemisphere combined. And oceans to our east and west, deserts to our south, and lakes and forests to our north insulate us from the rest of the world.
We are the least densely populated nation of any major global economy. More than half of our sixty largest cities face no restrictions on expansion in any direction.
Our God-given resources are exceptional.
With 5 percent of the world’s population, we produce nearly a third of the world’s wealth. The Texas economy is larger than the economies of Canada, Russia, or Australia;…
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