We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --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 shallseem 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.


I don't think there is another Declaration in existence on the entire planet that is more poetic, more relevant, or more all-encompassing as The Declaration of Indepence. We DO have rights, remember?


We have the right to CHOOSE.
We have the right to VOTE.
We have the right to PRAY, in any which way we choose.
We have the right to EDUCATION.
We have the right to say NO.
We have the right to PROTEST.
We have the right to KNOW.


And the first thing I want to know, in the spirit of envoking the rights bestowed upon tme by the 1st and 19th Amendments ("The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."), is:


WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG FOR HERSHEY TO PUT CARAMEL IN THEIR KISSES???