June 26 (UPI) -- As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence , the global data we collect and analyze shows that the country is failing to "promote the general Welfare," as the Constitution's framers promised a little more than a decade later. We are scholars of human rights . Alongside the Human Rights Measurement Initiative , a nonprofit that tracks how well more than 200 countries and territories are meeting the human rights commitments their