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A recent quote from one of my Professors:
“Sadly, a high percentage of Americans do not know basic information about the Constitution.
Here are some examples:
‘What is the supreme law of the land?’ Seventy-percent of the 1,000 citizens polled by Newsweek could not answer the ‘Constitution.’
Sixty-one percent didn’t know that the length of a U.S. senator’s term is six years, 63 percent couldn’t name the number of Supreme Court justices on the bench (nine), and 86 percent didn’t know that 435 members fill the U.S. House of Representatives.
And finally, fifty percent could not name an…
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