The Political Page
President John Adams
The Oath to Uphold the Constitution
Please Teach Civics!
“Knowledge of our system of governance and our rights and responsibilities as citizens is not passed along through the gene pool. Each generation of Americans must be taught these basics.” Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor
Margaret Thatcher once said, “European nations were made by history. The United States was made by philosophy. Unique among all nations, the United States knows precisely when and exactly why it was founded.”
Today, that may be changing. Survey after survey shows that Americans have a dismally poor understanding of the founding principles underpinning our nation.
Only one in four Americans can name all three branches of government. Seventy percent don’t know that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Doug Ducey
Ulysses S Grant
Commander of Union Forces, and two term President of the United States.
"If we are to have another contest (Civil War) in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason’s and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other."
