The claim that America is the organic product of a singular “Anglo-American Christian culture” misses the most important fact about the founding: the Revolution was an act of rejection of the “Anglo” part. The Declaration of Independence is not a celebration of English lineage or inherited authority. It is literally an indictment of it. It rejects monarchy, hereditary rule, parliamentary supremacy, and the idea that rights flow from tradition, blood, or crown. Those were Anglo values—and the Founders broke with them deliberately. Yes, America inherited the Anglo common law. But the common law became the most sophisticated legal system in the world because it was radically reworked in America—through written constitutions, judicial review, federalism, enumerated powers, and enforceable individual rights. None of that existed in England. And this legal experimentation did not occur in a closed ethnocultural loop. It was carried out by generations of lawyers, judges, and thinkers—many of them immigrants or the children of immigrants—who fought for the constitutional principles. What makes America exceptional is not which ethnic group the Founders were, but what they built: a system capable of binding strangers into a single people through law rather than lineage. Reduce America to ancestry, and you reduce the Constitution to folklore. The Founders believed their ideas were universal—or they wouldn’t have risked everything to declare them so. And here’s a photo of one of the greatest Americans, Marquis de Lafayette, who was famously not born in America.