-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970915142531.8586K-100000@well.com>, on 09/15/97 at 02:25 PM, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> said:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:57:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Americans flunk constitutional quiz
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pop quiz: How many U.S. senators are there? One in two Americans do not know the answer is 100, according to a survey on the U.S. Constitution released Monday. And two in five don't know there are three branches of government, let alone what they are. Mayor Edward G. Rendell of Philadelphia, where the Constitution was signed 210 years ago this Wednesday, said the results were disappointing. "That shows an appalling lack of knowledge for a document that determines what we do," said Rendell, chairman of the National Constitution Center, created by Congress in 1988 to increase awareness of the document. "Every day, issues important and central to us as people and government are affected by the Constitution."
This is quite understandable. There is very little teaching of the Constitution or of Government in public schools. Many years ago when I was in HS Civics entailed a 1 semester course 1/2hr a day in your senior year. While American history may still be taught in the public schools it is done so by socialist who have no interests of enlightening their students of the reasons this country was founded or the philosophies that it is founded on. We are paying today for allowing the socialist/statist taking control of the education of our children 30 yrs ago. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNB21zY9Co1n+aLhhAQGrqwQAr2QTKRkd/khyh9ZKJ9AXYyZwnEQaqO/e ZU/+1EXJDTStSnE9W5wQO64u2l1Z8M3iKF1x6Ucf80O2wINrarwBhiblzq6i8OuX KvNx9EIT0cHRL/Vs4CJj7wwuBiBg+safKmw2R/gHDyCL7XICpYoBA0mbOSyk0zAv Kko8mjwTflE= =7wue -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----