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Can you pass a basic civics quiz?
Take the ISI Civics Quiz, and see if you can score higher than most elected officials.
Some of the results:
- Officeholders typically have less civic knowledge than the general public. On average, they score 44%, five percentage points lower than non-officeholders.
- Seventy-one percent of Americans fail the test, with an overall average score of 49%.
- Fewer than half of all Americans can name all three branches of government, a minimal requirement for understanding America’s constitutional system.
- Only 24% of college graduates know the First Amendment prohibits establishing an official religion for the United States.
- Only 54% of college graduates can correctly identify a basic description of the free enterprise system, in which all Americans participate.
More
- US officials flunk test of Amercian history, economics, civics - Yahoo News
- Proud to be an American? Take the quiz - USA Today
- The Myth of the Rational Elected Official - Marginal Revolution
Posted November 23, 2008 10:57 AM · Permalink
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