Most U.S. adults can’t name the three
branches of government, survey finds
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/16/2022 2:53:53 PM
Less than half of Americans can name the three branches of the federal government—executive, legislative and judicial—according to an annual survey of civics knowledge conducted for the Constitution Day holiday on Saturday. Respondents to the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s survey also had little understanding of the impact of a Supreme Court ruling, and few could enumerate the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. “My impression is that even in prestigious universities, maybe 30% of all students could pass the civics test required of incoming immigrants,” said Joseph Ellis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning constitutional historian.(Snip)One-quarter of respondents could not name even one branch of the federal government,
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A former Agency director said their disinformation program aimed to create a condition wherein everything the American public believes is false. And thanks to schools controlled by the federal government, give or take their mass importation of uneducated foreigners who know or care nothing about the USA apart from how we're ready to give them plenty of Free Stuff, we're on our way to paradise.