America resolves it's social issues via separate entities that take a long time to muddle through and together. Very rarely do Americans make sweeping changes q

America resolves it's social issues via separate entities that take a long time to muddle through and together. Very rarely do Americans make sweeping changes quickly, mostly because the system is designed to prevent that. In that it's a relatively young country it's unsurprising that it takes this long to resolve a lot of edge cases via real world incidents, and then make them case law, case law being the vast majority of Americas law. The process to get to the supreme court, and have that case settled, becoming case law, and therefore effectively the law of the land, can take a long time. The laws at the time of the uniting of the states are very broad and subject to evolving interpretation. This is all by design. It wasn't so long ago that the states of the Americas were not united, and some might argue they still have some way to go until they are, if they ever will be.