The earliest documented usage cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is from the Daily Worker, 29 January 1929: 'This American 'exceptionalism' applies to the whole tactical line of the C.I. However, the specific term 'American exceptionalism' seems to have originated with American communists in the late 1920s. For example, in August 1861 The Times of London alluded to 'the 'exceptionalism,' if one may use the word, on which the Americans rather pride themselves' in a discussion of the American Civil War. The concept of the United States as an exceptional society has a long history, sometimes traced back to French writer Alexis de Tocqueville or to the ideas espoused by the Founding Fathers of the United States during the American Revolution. 4.1 Republican ethos and ideas about nationhood.3.4 Jefferson and the Empire of Liberty.3.3 American Revolution and republicanism.3.2 Puritan roots and Protestant promise.2.1 Alexis de Tocqueville and others (1835).The earliest documented use of the specific term 'American exceptionalism' is by American communists in intra-communist disputes in the late 1920s. French political scientist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville was the first writer to describe the country as 'exceptional' following his travels there in 1831. developed over time and can be traced to many sources. being perceived both domestically and internationally as superior to other nations or having a unique mission to transform the world. This ideology, which Lipset called Americanism, but is often also referred to as American exceptionalism, is based on liberty, equality before the law, individual responsibility, republicanism, and laissez-faire economics these principles are sometimes collectively referred to as 'American exceptionalism', and entail the U.S. emerged as 'the first new nation' with a distinct ideology. Political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset traces the origins of American exceptionalism to the American Revolution, from which the U.S. are unique in human history, often with the implication that it is both destined and entitled to play a distinct and positive role on the world stage. Proponents of it argue that the values, political system, and historical development of the U.S. The German professor Sieglinde Lemke argued that the Statue of Liberty 'signifies this proselytizing mission as the natural extension of the U.S.' sense of itself as an exceptional nation.' Īmerican exceptionalism is the idea that the United States is inherently different from other nations.

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