PHILADELPHIA — A sizable portion of the American public seems to show little interest in the fabric of the country’s government and history, a new survey finds.
Researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) surveyed over 1,000 American adults, finding a shocking lack of knowledge as it pertains to U.S. politics among the general populace.
Fifty-three percent of respondents believed the falsehood that illegal immigrants aren’t granted any constitutional rights, while 37 percent couldn’t even name a single right endowed by the First Amendment.
Thankfully, 48 percent of those surveyed were able to identify freedom of speech as being a right enshrined by the First Amendment, although far fewer could identify other rights accorded.
These include freedom of religion (15 percent), freedom of the press (14 percent), right of peaceful assembly (10 percent), and right to petition the government (three percent).
“Protecting the rights guaranteed by the Constitution presupposes that we know what they are. The fact that many don’t is worrisome,” says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania, in a press release. “These results emphasize the need for high-quality civics education in the schools and for press reporting that underscores the existence of constitutional protections.”
Meanwhile, only 26 percent of Americans could name all three branches of the federal government — that would be the executive, legislative, and judicial, for those playing at home.
While conservatives were more likely to be able to name all three branches than liberals or moderates, the overall proportion of the public that can name all three has fallen by 12 percent since 2011.
Perhaps most embarrassing: a full third of respondents couldn’t name a single federal branch of government, a figure that hasn’t shifted over the past half-decade.
As for the rights of illegal immigrants, a majority of conservatives (67 percent) believed that illegal aliens were not provided any legal recourse, compared to slight minorities of moderates (48 percent) and liberals (46 percent).
In reality, illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. are usually afforded a number of rights, including protection under the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.
On another note, it’s somewhat surprising that a significant minority of respondents believed that one could be denied rights on the basis of their religion (e.g., if they were Muslim or atheist).
The poll’s findings have a sampling error of about 3.7 percentage points.
How about you try some of those studies in WE fly over states in rural communities. You’ll see a difference.
Who does Steingold think he is fooling?? There has come to be 4 branches of government – the 3 designed by the Fathers, and the 4th, although not designed, certainly at least as powerful as the other 3 – the Bureaucracy.
The failure for the Fathers to envision this 4th branch is one of the few mistakes the Fathers made, but a dramatic one.
Dumb libs now you see how they supported a criminal like Hillary!!
And they all have a RIGHT to vote. And they will. Democrat.
The remaining 3/4 can’t or won’t speak English, can’t find America on a map and for certain can’t spell it.
Thank the liberal NEA!
That’s because half of them are illegal, and the rest are dumber than a bag of hammers, which is just the way the libs want them. If they get too smart, the might turn in their “freebies” for independence and dignity.
I asked my nine year old this question last week. He knew the answer. I then told him that probably half of America didn’t know the answer. Boy, was I wrong! 3/4’s of Americans are that dumb? Sad times ahead.
in a related story…..three quarters of America support kneeling for the National Anthem….
May be these basic questions should be part of voting process? Answer wrong and lose the vote!
The 14th Amendment has zero to do with illegal aliens. This was a post Civil War Amendment written specifically for freed slaves. The 14th has been bastardized by leftist judges and interpreted by them to apply to anyone in the US. The Constitution was written for and applies to US citizens. Steingold clearly doesn’t know the history behind the Constitution.
Naw, that’s inconsthevable! We have the best public edumacation that money can buy! Right NEA? Right?
This is a bogus poll. 35% of the country are conservative and conservatives know their history. They must have only polled 1000 liberal dunces. You know the ones, they end up on Jay Leno’s man on the street interviews. It is California after all.
As I’ve preached for DECADES: Amerika has an entire nation of INTENTIONALLY ignorant citizens.
However, they can still vote.
worse yet: they can REPRODUCE.
Okay so let me get this straight… Here is the step-by-step process on WHY THE USA WILL NEVER WATCH REAL SPORTS AGAIN:
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-Popular organizations exist in the USA that are 90%-packed with minority/Black-Athletes who each get $10million per year. The NFL/NBA/MLB contracts them for simply chasing a ball around like dogs in fully-packed stadiums. Lots of fans and young children idolize them like gods.
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-These NFL/NBA/MLB organizations rely upon the racist white honky ((Jew))-owned media to provide packed stadiums.
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-One horrible player (who is about to get cut) tries to get all political for the sake of publicity, knowing exactly what the ((Jew))-owned media loves to hear & promote.
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-The ((Jew))-owned media popularizes/fashionalizes this player’s anti-USA protest.
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-All other players believe everything the ((Jew))-owned media tells them, and take a knee, too~ even though there was TEN TIMES less “media-baited” racism “problems” in the USA ten years ago.
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-All loyal citizens of the USA get pissed off at these OVER-PAYED players who do nothing but chase a ball like dogs while having a 5th-grade-level of understanding of governments & human-history…
…and then there is the fact that they are refusing to participate in ball-chasing ceremonies they are paid for…
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-Keep in mind, this sports-audience is relatively-similar to the national-majority that elected Trump… In this land, it is “majority rule”. This land did not vote BACOZ THEY LIKE TRUMP; this land voted BACOZ THEY ARE TIRED OF ((Jews)) infesting Detroit and other local-politics like termites while doing NOTHING for the black community other than using it every 4 years as a “voter-plantation”.
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-Shame on YOU for presenting us with “Hillary” as the only other option. You wanted Bernie?!? LOL well your Democrat Party is Communist, so their party canceled Bernie out without even CARING what YOU puny citizens wanted! That is how Communist Authoritarianism works. That is how your (((Debbie Wasserman-Schultz))) works… LOL… It is like niggaz be HYPNOTIZED by that ((Jew)) candy.
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-Sports-Stadium turnout now bacomes 30%. The majority of the USA was sick enough of the ((Jew))-monopolized media in the FIRST PLACE, and now everyone is sick of them forcefeeding us “politics” through sports… causing a USA-sports-boycott to begin. What is NEXT?!?… The Food Network going all “political”?!?… Anthony Bordinne taking a knee and refusing to cook shit and eat nasty shit?!?.. Well I guess that puts HIM out of a job, TOO!!!
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-NFL/NBA/MLB Franchises can no-longer afford to pay $10million to each of the minority/Black-Athletes due to the lack of attendance and viewers.
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-Ultimately, minority/Black-Athletes lose… They can all thank Colin Kaepernick (aka Squidward) (aka Canadian Culture-Vulture) (aka Arabic dude raised by rich upper-class Democrat white/Poland parents) (aka “JihadiJohn witness-relocation-program”)…
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-NFL/NBA/MLB crumbles. No more sports.
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-You can thank the racist white honky ((Jew))-owned media for the elimination of sports in the USA… unless their ((Jew)) banker-friends decide to force the government to use YOUR working TAX MONEY to bail them out like they forced the government to bail THEMSELVES out years ago when they should have gone out of business and let the better businesses in the middle-scale pull up for once.
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-((Jews)) destroyed American Football, Basketball, and Baseball~ especially after the new ((Jew))-owners of Disney seized control of ESPN.
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-ESPN was a money-maker~ sustaining itself, and allowing their employees the ethical raises and appreciation expected of a USA Company… until New ((Jew)) Disney seized control.
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-Disney was non-stop losing money, but still funded as an expense for the sake of white ((Jew)) honky social-engineering, by globalist/treasonous ((Jew))-owners for the sake of a global propaganda “uniculturalist” campaign despite their lies of “multiculturalism”. Multiculturalism will be completely GONE within 2 generations of Open Society throughout the planet. Yes, the ((Jews)) want to breed us niggaz into extinction.
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-Disney started milking funds from their new “cash-cow” ESPN. Employee quality-of-life decreases rapidly.
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-ESPN employees all the way down to the office-assistant/receptionist-level begin a mass-Exodus, leaving the organization after numerous “virtual slaps” in the face.
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-The ORIGINAL owner, the “USA-Loyal” Walt Disney is turning in his grave while seeing what the new ((Jew))-owners are doing to his legacy. Even his theme-park Disneyland has turned into crap.
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-Sports in America will meet the same fate as the historic USA and Confederate Statues that the ((Jew))-owned media and their young Democrat “hench-its” (…sorta like hench-men or hench-women, except gender-neutral and ten times more annoying) have destroyed during their ISIS-like/Nazi-like book-burning of USA-history to the point history could repeat itself. No different from ISIS destroying a land’s ANCIENT statues after they conquer it.
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-There is a strong chance that you will never watch sports again, and it is all bacoz of the ((Jew))-media and the sports-boycott they caused which led to bankruptcy of their teams..
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-The year is 2019. The racist white ((Jew)) honkies [like that whiteJew-Hispanic George Zimmerman] have successfully removed sports from both stadium-attendance AND television.
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-That is how I bacame top-ranked in the national RightHook LeftJew Game… Just by thinking about the destruction of USA-Sports Programs the ((Jews)) did got me ranked up to a national-level with 37 FaceTimes so far… The last one’s face bounce off a parking-meter, causing me to almost poop my draws after seeing that!… For my followers and mentorees, I give this advice: Go for the ones with them Jerry-curled sideburns with the tassles hanging out they pockets…
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-The ((Jew))-honkies killed professional sports (starting in 2019) for the USA.
Home school! Your kids will be better for it.
Or roughly half of Republicans can’t name the three branches! Demwits near zero.
Ah, so the Fascist Dems succeeded in their remolding public education to create “useful idiots” to serve their political ends (re: Podesta email).