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74% of polititians fail Civics test on the Constitution ! TAKE THE QUIZ!
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[quote:Joshua Flynn 1230882:MV8xMzI1NDE1XzIxNzU1Nzc5X0U4MTZFNEU0] [quote:Epic Beard Guy] In school now days, over 60% passes. I assume that is the standard that most politicians can't pass. [/quote] 57% So, pretty close. This is bearing in mind I don't know the details of the American history. I have no memory for those dates or names and stuff. Some of the answers you can answer with a bit of common sense, but admittedly, the answers (questions?) are phrased pretty badly; for example, the flood question? What's a benefit. Their answer was the residents don't have to pay, but this is flawed; they do pay. Via taxes, so no advantage. So I was forced to choose because the insurance wouldn't cover it (which is extremely likely!). The ones I couldn't honestly answer were ones that required technical knowledge (I haven't heard the Gettyburg's address, etc etc). The Electorial College caught me by surprise, because I figure an 'elitism' institute electng a president is pretty undemocratic. Very much so. The College term is also a grand misnomer. If they don't study, why it a College? [/quote]
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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute polled 2500 people including 164 elected officials. 74% of Elected officials, and 71% of the general population failed the test. You can read the story here. [
link to www.wnd.com
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You can take the test here. [
link to www.americancivicliteracy.org
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I am embarrassed to say I only got 88%. Please take the test and post your scores to see how much smarter GLPers are than the Elected officials that are supposed to support the document they know so little about. You can take the quiz as many times as you want, but please post your first score hear.
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