In the few hundred years that it has been its own independently established nation, America has been witness to an incredible series of radical changes. It was not long ago that slavery existed, women were considered the property of men, people who held any form of a job were immediately thought of as lower-class, and the time-honored traditions, expectations, and social rules concerning family, religion, and education were upheld and practiced without question, as though they were written in the Constitution itself. …
