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Posted on 04/15/2012 11:10:29 PM PDT by nikos1121
Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey) Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.
Me too. I agree.
That’s the one question I missed as well. We’re right, the test administrators are wrong.
“You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %
If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email americancivicliteracy@isi.org.
You can consult the following table to see how citizens and elected officials scored on each question.”
Congrats! It would be nice if they’d post this on the side bar don’t you think?
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Think of the semantic difference between DEBT and DEFICIT. There is Government Debt even if (such as during the Gingrich Congress) we actually run an annual surplus (which would mean no deficit for a given year).
32 out of 33. I would have got them all right if I left Jefferson’s letters checked. I knew it was Jefferson on separation of church and state and somehow I allowed myself to click Washington’s Farewell Address.
I have to reexamine my way of thinking while taking exams.
This is a pretty good exam and I can understand why the general public would score so badly. How many of us have read Plato? However, I cannot understand how educators scored so poorly.
To answer the question on government debt and taxes:
If government spending exactly equals tax payments, the budget is balances. That does not speak for the continuing debt of the country which might have been accumulated in the past. So... The only correct answer is that the average collected per citizen is the average collected per citizen.
Yes.. I see the mistake in my last post. Duh...
75.76%. Woodshed for me.
Screwed the pooch on the last question. Suckage.
I missed the same one. I too thought the answers did not quite fit the question.
33 out of 33. 100%. But I guessed on the philosopher question.
Question: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:
It's been too many years since I read Plato and Socrates.
Question: Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because:
I thought more like an attorney and not like the actual economic system there.
Question: If taxes equal government spending, then:
I misread one word in the answers. Trick Question.
I got 28/33. Turns out I’m an economics illiterate.
I got those two wrong. Contracts make capitalism work was drilled in my head in law school so I reverted back to it. I read debt=deficit and knew I blundered as soon as I saw my answer. If I took my time I would have only missed the Plato question because I haven’t touched those books (outside Aquinas) since undergrad.
On the Puritan one, remember the Puritans were Protestants and held to Reformed theology. Many came from England, where after the reign of Queen Mary (Catholic) (Bloody Mary) many of the Anglican Church were charged with heresy and burned at the stake. Queen Elizabeth, who followed circa 1559, was Protestant in upbringing, but still had many questions on theology. Her primary concern was ending the bloodshed between Christian denominations. The Church of England then adopted an Reformed theology, an Episcopal ecclesiology, and retained Roman Ritual in worship ceremony.
The Puritans didn’t believe this went far enough. In order to preach in the Anglican Church, the pastor had to be licensed by the Bishop (Episcopal ecclesiology). They sought to “PURIFY” the Church of all Roman Ritual. When this was denied them, many sought to establish colonies elsewhere, first in the Netherlands, then to Virginia, but were blown off course landing at Plymouth Rock.
So “Puritans” aren’t some group of dour do-gooders, but instead sought freedom of speech and religion to “PURIFY” their worship of God from all Roman Ritual.
The Puritans themselves were split between non-separatists and Separatists, who removed themselves from the Anglican Church. Later, Separatists would also divide in Presbyterian and Baptists. (Not to mention Dunkers, Forward Dunkers and three times backwards Dunkers....)
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs was written by Anglicans who were Protestant in theology, but had been thrown out of power during the reign of Bloody Mary. It was used to document the antiChristian slaughter of believers by the RCC when Queen Mary placed the Church of England back under their power. When Queen Elizabeth came to the throne in 1559, several years later, the Book of Martyrs was published, followed by the persecution of the Huguenots in France by the RCC for 30-100 years.
In summary, the Puritans were essentially Reformed English Protestants, Calvinist in theology, who sought to live by the laws of God and the laws of man, but believed the Church needed to be purged of all Roman Ritual.
For some further study of Church History, here is a fairly well written article from a Baptist perspective.
http://www.swbts.edu/resources/swbts//From_Christological_Ecclesiology_to_Functional_Ecclesiasticism.pdf and upstream to form Rhode Island. About the time of the
Thanks for the insight on the Puritans. Will try to remember to look up the whole “dunkers” thing!
Russkies, ChiComs = no democratic free enterprise capitalism under rule of law.
Spy vs. Spy? Crook vs. Crook.
This is also why Democrats hate The Constitution. It etches in stone "The Rule of Law".
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