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I doubt it. That and the Constitution used be taught top to bottom...but nowadays, if they are brought up all in Publik schools - it's a twisted version to turn them upside down===
My daughter graduated from a small, private all-girls high school and was required to take a course called "Literature of Protest". Her daddy and I were very tentative about it until we were sent the reading list. First piece of literature they had to read was the Declaration of Independence.
"...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or 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."
Don't you love how it was Unanimous! Meaning everyone was on the same page with the Declaration of Independence!
I often argue with friends that the promoting and spreading ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence should be the United States' single overriding foreign policy objective. Our nation is based on those principles which contain universal rights. I always end up asking the question "Do the rights identified in the Declaration of Independence apply to all men, or just to those fortunate enough to be born in a limited geographic area?" I then provide the answer, "If they do not apply to all men, then the American Revolution was an unjust act."