The majority of Americans are ignorant of their own rights and liberties based on the Constitution, according to a new study that analyzes this data.
The 2023 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey, conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, is released annually to celebrate Constitution Day (September 17th), found that most Americans are clueless to their own rights.
The following is a snippet of what they found:
The Three Branches Of Government
The three branches: The 2023 survey found that 66% of U.S. adults could name all three branches of government – executive, legislative, and judicial – while 10% could name two of the branches and 7% could name only one. About 1 in 6 people (17%) could not name any branches.
Poor Knowledge Of First Amendment Rights
The First Amendment: When respondents are asked to name the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment, the only right with widespread recognition is freedom of speech:
- Three-quarters (77%) name freedom of speech.
- Less than half (40%) name freedom of religion.
- A third (33%) name the right to assembly.
- Just over a quarter (28%) name freedom of the press.
- And less than 1 in 10 (9%) know the right to petition the government.
In all, only 5% of the U.S. adults surveyed correctly name all five First Amendment rights while 30% could name three or four of the rights. Nearly half of those surveyed (46%) could name one or two First Amendment rights, and 20% could not correctly name any.
A surprisingly large number of respondents, over 1 in 5 (22%), replied by listing the right to bear arms, which is a right under the Second Amendment, not the First. We hypothesize that, seeing five empty text boxes, web panelists may have called to mind any other right with which they are familiar.
Freedom of speech and Facebook: Over half (53%) think it is accurate to say that the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of speech means that Facebook must permit all Americans to freely express themselves on Facebook pages, while nearly half (47%) say that is not accurate.
While the First Amendment protects citizens from government action to limit speech, courts have ruled that social media companies such as Facebook are private companies are not covered by it.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This verse sums up the mess:
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs 29:18
This verse has duel application both secularly and spiritually:
In the secular sense, the Constitution and Bill of Rights is nothing more than a piece of paper with some scribble on it: it’s the people who then uphold it, enforce it, hold each other accountable, and be willing to fight and die for them for not only yourself but your children’s children, that make it effectual. When that mentality and understanding is lost, that “vision,” then it’s just a piece of paper with words that can be trifled upon on a routine basis.
As concerning scripture, when people lose sight of the law (of the scriptures; see Romans 3:31, Romans 6:14-15), then the word of God becomes blasphemed and the whole ship starts to stink. The word of God has power, but the lost world has to see those “Christians” live by it. If they don’t, then it is just viewed as a dusty old book that’s probably just copiest errors, written by people tripped out on psychedelics. It’s not, but that’s what people start to think.
[1] Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? [2] Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: [3] Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 2 Corinthians 3:1-3; don’t talk about it, walk the talk and act like it and live by the Book
The truth of the matter here is that the U.S. Constitution and original Bill of Rights came from the freedoms given from the King James Holy Bible; and it was righteousness and upholding the standards that allowed America to become the freest nation on earth for the longest time (Proverbs 14:34).
Since the people no longer believe in the word of God whatsoever, not even in the slightest bit, across all spectrums, the secular laws reflect that; and it’s reflected by imbeciles who are content to lose their freedoms and have allowed their liberties to be taken away. As a young adult writing this, all I can do is read about how great and wonderful America was back then, a bygone era that was truly amazing. Now it’s all gone; because losers traded it for “sin for a season,” and are “lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God” (2 Timothy 3:4).
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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America rejects the King James Bible, they’ll reject the Constitution and Bill of Rights that they were based on. Par for the course.
The dumbing down of America. We will lose this country and there will be no place to escape to.
Our ancestors fought for nothing against past tyranny and would be rolling over in their graves at the tsunami of evil that is destroying the nation within.
Now we are living in a present tyranny which will end up in a lot of blood shed eventually. I will not live in tyranny; I would rather die.
The Declaration of Independence, Constitution with its Bill of Rights etc have been under attack by ‘evolving’ natural law philosophy & nicolaitan elites —-Rome at the head of the attack w/ her Augustinian Daughters— from the time that the ink was still wet on the original documents. And, well before with the attacks on Cromwell, King James etc.
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This is one reason that ancient baptist history and the trail of blood, studied up through the days of the colonies & how its played out up to now, how those documents were utterly unique & rooted in that King James Bible, the 7th, & NOT the 6th, the Geneva Bible ….is so very important.
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It’s also why baptist & King James Bible churches and schools were targeted for especial government infiltration & attention, offered tempting ‘perks’ and grants etc. The ‘conservative baptist’ uniform coming to look so like the dress of FBI/CIA goons, or dark-garbed Jesuits; the romanticization of a false, worldly militarism that entwined itself with Chick publications, & the manipulative, high pressure ‘salesmanship’ techniques & scripts so promoted by the likes of Hyles….aping the folly of nicolaitan Presbyterian, Reformed & Protestant scholastically tempted/conditioned, sorted & initiating systems of Craft, including the Jewish forms….all Greco-Roman & idolatrous humanism, and all out from Alexandria, Egypt.
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Of course there is individual responsibility & the need for repentance, but ignorance is not a hopeless matter, & the better one understands how we got to where we are, the better one can avoid, separate from & resist the subtil lies and attacks without knowledge puffing up & potentially blinding& hindering, embittering, us in what time remains.
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We all know that Ruckman had his issues, but on THAT topic he was spot on regarding the purposeful precedents in their progressive, evolving ‘natural law’ & the undermining & circumventing, the basic shredding, of our Constitutional protections. Rome’s purposeful cultivation of the cults, fostering of division & civil war & unrest…etc. Craft getting a foothold in choosing ‘the selections’ so that voting becomes moot, special interests buying the ‘safe selections’, using activist judiciaries & purposeful ‘test’ cases to establish precedence in pagan natural Law tending to empire, not fixed biblical New Testament & Pauline precedent tending to separate nations, liberty & non-conforming, ungagged, tolerance …..and, then the stealthy use of Constitutional weaknesses, such as international entanglements & the establishment of international treaty & ‘Law’, to finish the job.
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So many examples, but Justice Roberts selling out as the ‘swing vote’ to foist Obamacare on this nation: then flying off to Malta to receive his knighthood ‘reward’, coming to mind as being one directly relating to the international covid /covert operation.
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It was why prying the peoples’ hands off of their powerful, engrafted King James Bible freeing souls & unifying the people in truth leading to, and conducive to, liberty….erasing the fear of God with the need for self-restraint, -control, personal responsibility, constant vigilance etc from the peoples’ memories became such a goal with the Humanist Society: Craft aiding and abetting Rome, also cultivating & networking with the cults & their hierarchies lording over their own people, yet submitted to Rome as their head.
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I graduated in ’78, public school, and can testify that the actual content of the documents wasn’t taught honestly in either history or government classes by then, let alone the history of how we got them via the trail of blood.
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And, then homeschooling & trying to navigate the centralized & dishonest ‘Christian curriculum’ world the last few decades, going on thirty years now: I can testify that the curriculums are mostly ecumenized to remerge with Romanism through the nicolaitan Augustinian Reformed & Protestant, Geneva-and-Calvinism promoting ‘right arm’ of the Harlot-Beast system abuilding, or else the nicolaitan & tyrannical social justice, save the world-and-earth ecumenical universalism: both rooted in idolatrous humanism & pagan ‘naturalism’, fertility cult garbage & the big sodomite three of Western philosophy which is also compatible with the relativist Creation-worshipping East, the so-called left with which the philosophical & filthy, Talmudic & kabalist branches of Judaism tend to join themselves to. The Torah Jews seeking to force men back under the Law, the concision (Philippians 3 KJB) end in ritual craft unity & partnership with Rome, though, as written, in the end. Even before the removal of he who letteth, you can see those things taking shape.
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Cunning craftiness by which men seek to deceive, & with sins of lust, covetousness, pride, Baal and Mammon worship all contributing. All the sins of Canaan & craft, philosophy & tradition spoiling men and drawing many back into bondage & under the Law before they ever had a hope of entering in at the strait gate: hirelings and leaders the worst of all when it comes to responsibility for purposely turning people away from repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 20:21, Romans 10:17, and 1 Corinthians 15, 2 Corinthians 5 KJB) ….but actually, and as always, all free individuals are responsible before God & his word for how far such can tempt & lead astray. Or for what a soul does when the unpalatable truth is set before them.
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Galatians & Colossians are indispensable to understanding this issue, and the book of Hebrews KJB. 1 Timothy 4& 6, 2 Timothy 3, 2 Peter 2&3, & Jude KJB….and the churches of Revelation 2&3 KJB…with the Romans 1, 9-11 KJB decline of nations and cultures, to the Jew first & then the Greek/Gentile, reveal what happens when men forget & lose vigilance.
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Do we not see it all around us? Still, Hebrews 12 KJB is edifying, encouraging ….bracing, for what we must face here in this flesh and dying corruption: better to look at one’s tendency to sin & depravity full on in the light of truth and the scriptures, than to turn away from hard truth & scripture, to be found a spiritual bastard in the end.