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74% of polititians fail Civics test on the Constitution ! TAKE THE QUIZ!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 642285:MV8xMzI1NDE1XzIxNzcyMjE5XzVGOTBFQTUw] You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 % The question which required knowledge of Jefferson's letters threw me. The Jeffersonian letters was the right answer and I think I marked Gettysburg Address as a guess because I did not know that answer. The rest of them, somehow and for some strange reason, I knew! Much to my surprise. I was expecting a 70-ish score. This was not my long suit in high school or in Junior High when I had two years of American Government and Civics classes in order to graduate into high school (way back in the 1960's and I was in a private school in NYC. The fact that I would do better than the majority of our legislators comes as no shock or surprise. I think we are electing the scum of the earth for those jobs because no one who is not a crook and out for themselves wants the damned jobs any longer! [/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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