Some of theses changes should occur when there is no war going on. This is to make the country be modernized by the technology. If there is a war going on, the improvement of each technologies will be lessen and could possibly be stopped.
In the bureaucracy, it is common for those in conjunction to rate themselves by a spoils system, where everyone takes what is available, and the highest grossed individual is the most esteemed.
The reason why the Declaration's idea about why governments are formed are still important to our country is that it says the people have the right to replace a government that becomes tyrannical, which theoretically keeps the current government "in check".
The escalation of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal led to distrust among the public of the American government. Up until the 1960's and 1970's, Americans were typically approving of the government. They patriotically followed President Roosevelt into World War II and praised the government for helping them out of the Great Depression. The government played it relatively safe in the '50's and Americans didn't mind because they were experiencing great prosperity and didn't want to get involved in another major war. By the time the '60's and '70's rolled around, the Vietnam War was a source of contention because people didn't really agree with the war and the government began hiding information and lying to the public to maintain what little support they still had. The real hit came when Nixon became implicated in the Watergate scandal causing the public to mistrust the government even more. Both of these events demonstrated to the American public that the great leaders of America aren't as great as they're played up to be.
