The overall trend of spending during presidential campaigns since the 1960´s has shown an enormous increase. The explanation resides in various factors: - inflation (change of the value of the dollar, making necessary more dollars to achieve the same); -also the equation that there are more inhabitants, meaning, more donors. - Since the income of the people increased, there is also more money to donate.
The United States was forced to ask itself harsh questions about race and equality after WWII because many blacks and women had been called in a variety of ways to help their country, which did not treat them fairly back home--leading to accusations of hypocrisy.
The Declaration of Independence argues that people are "<span>endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," and that the role of government is to protect those rights. When the government stops doing so, the people have a right to change their government.
</span>The Declaration is very specific about this: "<span>To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."</span>
