It took just 4,543 words — about nine, single-spaced pages — to create our entire system of government. That’s the length of the U.S. Constitution.i
To declare independence and lay out the principles that would guide a new nation? Only 1,458 words.
To pump a bunch of stimulus money into the economy during the pandemic? 939,763 words.iii Longer than The Bible. Way longer.
But, I mean … every one of those words probably really mattered, right? Right?
OK, America: Consider this an intervention.
