Posted on 05/27/2008 4:54:36 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Online civics test at the link for any interested.
Umm, a Constitutional Republic is a form of indirect democracy. We democratically elect leaders to govern.
That was neat!
What is shocking about this is the page link to findings.
NONE of the college seniors from the BEST colleges (supposedly) did better than 69% and that was Harvard!....
Pretty poor..... Ha, I did better than a Harvard Senior 50/60.....
Since the posting of this thread, the average score on the site has increased a couple of points. Freepers are smart. I got 54/60 right.
Now THAT response made me LAUGH 10 seconds...!!
88.3%
Okay folks give it a shot. I got and 83.33 on it, made me feel pretty humble and considered giving up on being a true FReeper.
Dang 48/60.
Crap. I missed 4. The last time I missed 2. At this rate I won’t know anything in a couple more decades.
I got an 80%. I’ve been out of college for 35 years and while in college, I was in a program that allowed me to take 12 hours of French instead of six hours of Economics. The only economics course I ever had was in high school, and it was taught by a football coach.
I scored an 88.33. I was doing pretty good until I reached the economics portion of the test. I missed questions 50-53.
Understood. That is the answer they regard as correct.
Nevertheless, it is an incorrect answer.
Best regards,
It may not have been specific enough for your taste, but it is correct.
No surprise, I messed up on what the Federal Reserve does.
I got 56/60 for 93%
Maybe a psyc-ops review of the question will help.
To answer the question the respondent is given five options but no choices (as in "none of the above").Three of the options are clearly unacceptable and TWO use the word "Democracy". There is NO choice with the word REPUBLIC.
To get the Pavlovian reward, to "win" the contest, you MUST eat the biscuit that includes the word DEMOCRACY.
Congratulations, you have just been incremently brainwashed.
In a nutshell, this question summarizes everything wrong with Public Education.
Maybe this limited choices approach was partially excusable back in the dark ages of paper and pencil tests and limited resources, but this is the Internet; computers process large quantities of information effortlessly from a virtually infinite test paper.
Why not include every conceivable choice possible-from Anarchy to Kakistocracy? (Definitely include "none of the above")
Maybe then it will be possible to discover what the test taking public really knows.
Just say NO to bad education.
Best regards,
To get the Pavlovian reward, to "win" the contest, you MUST eat the biscuit that includes the word DEMOCRACY.
Okay, let's see your definition of the word "Republic" that does not refer to a democratic element.
Otherwise, put away the tin foil. If anything, the test is biased toward libertarianism.
You are kidding,right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_republics
List of republics
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of republics is a list of countries or states governed as a republic.
For Antiquity (or later in the case of societies that did not refer to a Western terminology to qualify their form of government) the assessment of whether a state organisation is a republic is an analysis by retrospect, left to the discretion of historians and political theorists.
For more recent systems of government worldwide organisations with a broad political acceptance, like the United Nations, can provide information on whether or not a sovereign state is referred to as a republic.
* 1 List of Republics by Period
o 1.1 Antiquity
o 1.2 Middle Ages and Renaissance
o 1.3 Early Modern
o 1.4 19th Century
o 1.5 20th Century and Later
* 2 List of Republics by Type
o 2.1 Unitary republics
o 2.2 Federal republics
o 2.3 Confederal republics
o 2.4 Arab Republics
o 2.5 Islamic Republics
o 2.6 Democratic Republics
o 2.7 Socialist Republics
o 2.8 People's Republics
* 3 References
[edit] List of Republics by Period
[edit] Antiquity
* Doric Greek city-states of Crete[citation needed]
* Sparta[citation needed]
* Carthage (c. 8th century BC- 146 BC)[citation needed]
* Athens under the separate reforms of Solon and Cleisthenes.[citation needed]
* Licchavi (c. 600 BC - 400 AD)[citation needed]
* Roman Republic (c. 509 – 27 BC) and many other Italian cities.[citation needed]
[edit] Middle Ages and Renaissance
* San Marino (301 – present)[citation needed]
* Amalfi (839 – 1131)[citation needed]
* Venice (c. 9th century - 1797)[citation needed]
* Iceland (930 – 1262)[citation needed]
* Pisa (11th century – 1406, 1494 – 1509)[citation needed]
* Genoa (c. 1100 - 1797)[citation needed]
* Florence (1115 - 1537)[citation needed]
* Novgorod Republic (1136 – 1478)[1]
* Lucca (1160 – 1805)
* Siena (1167 – 1557)[citation needed]
* Old Swiss Confederacy (1291 - 1798)
* Ragusa (14th century – 1808)[citation needed]
* Pskov Republic (1348 - 1510)
* Ambrosian Republic (1447 - 1450)
* Holy Roman Empire from Maximilian I (1508 - 1806)
* Netherlands (1581 – 1795)[citation needed]
[edit] Early Modern
* Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569 - 1795)
* Goust (1648 - )
* Commonwealth of England (1649 - 1660)[citation needed]
* Corsican Republic (1755 - 1769)[2]
* Vermont Republic (1777 - 1791)[3]
* United States of America (1787 - Present)
* First French Republic (1792 - 1804)
* Helvetic Republic (1798 - 1802)
* State of Muskogee (1799 - 1803)
[edit] 19th Century
* Swiss Confederation (1803 - 1815)
* Confederation of the Rhine (1806 - 1813)
* Haiti (1806 - 1849; restored 1859)[citation needed]
* Duchy of Warsaw (1807 - 1813)
* Free City of Danzig (1807 - 1814)
* West Florida (1810)
* Paraguay (1811 - present)
* Free City of Krakow (1815 - 1846)
* Argentina (1816 - present)
* Chile (1818 - present)
* Colombia (1819 - present)
* Federal Republic of Central America (1823 - 1840)
* Mexico (1824 - present)
* Peru (1824 - present)
* Bolivia (1825 - present)
* Uruguay (1828 - present)
* Venezuela (1830 - present)
* Ecuador (1830 - present)
* Republic of Texas (1836 - 1845)
* Second French Republic (1842 - 1852)
* California Republic (1846)
* Menton and Roquebrune (1848 - 1861)
* Republic of Ezo (1868-1869)
* Tavolara (1886 - 1899)[4][5][6]
* Franceville (1889)[7]
* Republic of Hawaii (1894 - 1898)
* Republic of Formosa (1895)
* Greater Republic of Central America (1896 - 1898)
* Republic of Crete (1898 - 1913)[8]
* Republic of Acre (1st: 1899 - 1900; 2nd: 1900; 3rd: 1903)
[edit] 20th Century and Later
* Panama (est. 1903)
* Albania (est. 1946)[citation needed]
* Algeria (est. 1962)[citation needed]
* Afghanistan (est. 1973)[citation needed]
* Nepal (est. 2008)
[edit] List of Republics by Type
In modern usage, a republican form of government is applied loosely to any state which claims this designation. [9] So for example the Dominican Republic under Rafael Trujillo is considered a republic, as is the Republic of Iraq under Saddam Hussein and the The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under Joseph Stalin. The Kingdom of Sweden (which in 2006 ranked highest in the Economist's index of democracy) [10] is not a republic, but the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (which ranks lowest in the same survey) is.
[edit] Unitary republics
Unitary republics are unitary states which are governed constitutionally as one single unit, with a single constitutionally created legislature.............................................................
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You answered 56 out of 60 correctly — 93.33 %
Average score for this quiz during June: 71.9%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 71.9%
Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #50 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends.
Question #57 - A. Theaters will sell fewer tickets.
Question #58 - B. An increase in the volume of commercial bank loans.
Question #60 - B. social security.
No, I'm not kidding. Let's see a definition that does not refer to a democratic process. A list of governments making the claim to be a Republic is not a definition.
For example:
re·pub·lic [ ri púbblik ] (plural re·pub·lics)
noun
Definition:
1. political system with elected representatives: a political system or form of government in which people elect representatives to exercise power for them. [bolding mine]
In other words, an indirect democracy.
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