Thank you for posting this. This is the very first time I've carefully read the Declaration of Independence all the way through. I may have skimmed through it in school but only because I had to. The following lines are screaming out to me:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

This rings true and applies perfectly to our time. The government no longer reflects the will the the people and that's a pretty good barometer of how far we've slipped.

Happy 4th to you, Sult! I hope there's some way we can fix this great experiment called America (aka. the United States, The United States, The United States of America, America, U.S. and the good old US of A.)