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New Poll on Understanding of First Amendment [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] |
| Published: September 15, 2007, 10:09 am |
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The First Amendment Center has just published the results of its annual survey of American knowledge and attitudes concerning the first amendment; the results were quite mixed. First, the matter of knowledge. Of the five specific rights guaranteed by the first amendment, only freedom of speech could be identified by more than 20% of respondents. 64% could name freedom of speech. 16% could identify freedom of the press, 19% could identify freedom of religion, 16% could identify the right to assemble and only 3% could identify the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. I find that appalling. Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this post... [ Full article ] |
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