Some other remarks:
Having rejected the old European order, the colonists had little to fall back on, or build on, culturally, politically, or socially. Later European immigration in the later 18th and throughout the 19th Century further fragmented this original situation.
Having abandoned establishments of religion, and then been forced, by division, into a separation of church and state, they had not that deep aspect of Western civilization to refer to even.
So what was left of Western civilization at the founding? Not much.
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