Are we really with a government of, for and by the people?

When
I was a little kid growing up in Newark and going to Bergen Street elementary
school, I remember a teacher reading something to us in class one day. It went
something like this:

“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”.

These
words are from our Declaration of Independence, and unfortunately, not from our
Constitution. And from these principles, we Americans, lay claim to a rather
unique and somewhat revolutionary legacy.

That
being that every person can lay claim to his or her own …read more