Compare the Constitution of the United States with the Constituiton of the USSR or the Islamic Republic of Iran. Both of those countries had/have very nice Constitutions guaranteeing all sorts of Rights, although there are certain “nuances” squirreled away in the documents that were/are used to deny all of those rights. The important thing is not what the document says but what the body politic does. The document by itself is a scrap of paper, and is used as such most places in the world.
America’s great achievement was to live out the document as a way of public life. And it worked...for a while anyway. I’m afraid it’s pretty much a scrap of paper now, just like every other place on earth.
But my interest is in why that happened, and my answer is the “Four Pillars.”