- Liberals score an average of 49%; conservatives score 48%.
Nowhere did the quiz ask me my political views. Yet it somehow categorized me?
That's because it's not important that it comes from here. It's an obvious derision of two hundred years of political theory which some might say culminates in the US Constitution. The important part is that they understand this purpose of Government.
- Only 21% know that the phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people” comes from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
The important thing is that over half know it's not out of the US Constitution. Where it came from is trivia. This is a good result, a surprisingly good result.
Less than one in five know that the phrase “a wall of separation” between church and state comes from a letter by Thomas Jefferson. Almost half incorrectly believe it can be found in the Constitution.
They must accompany this quiz with a questionnaire with their other information elsewhere. Then they roll the results in with everyone's results and come to negative conclusions whenever they possible can. Booooo.
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