DOWN WITH KING GEORGE!
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 - 10:31am
Happy 4th of July Americans! Down with the King!
Here is a Quiz about your government sadly I missed 4. 
Hope everyone stays safe tomorrow and if you do anything covered in awesome take pic or it didn't happen!
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P.S. A neato quiz! I missed 5, mostly one the constitutional amendments subject.
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I missed 6. I mis-read the question "Who was the first vice president of the United States" as "Who was the first president of the United States." Four of them were about amendments, and I didn't know about the other two assassinations.
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Happy 4th of July my friends to the south
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Missed 4, most of them amendments questions.
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Missed the last two.
Dammit, how could I forget that Clinton was actually impeached?
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3 wrong.
I take issue with the "Which of the following rights is guaranteed by the first amendment?" question, which has two correct answers. The Supreme Court's recent gun ruling found that the First Amendment is in some ways applicable to gun ownership.
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10 wrong, but I don't feel to bad about that, being a German and all that.
1 wrong. I couldn't remember which Amendment set the voting age at 18.
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2 wrong, voting age amendment and year last amendment was ratified.
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Haven't taken the test (and would most likely fail abysmally), but an early happy 4th of July to my cousin goodjers across the pond!
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3 wrong - didn't know how many amendments had been left un-ratified.
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My score will be a closely guarded secret. Yes, it was that bad.
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Woo hoo! Perfect score! That history minor wasn't for naught. Go Team USA!
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Hehe, 16 wrong
and I *so* wanted the official language of the US to be Esperanto
Anyway happy fourth of july 'n that, you wacky colonials.
I'd offer you a celebratory cup of tea but....well, that didn't go too well first time around
I can't believe you all take tests and still call yourselves Americans.
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I missed 7, one of which being the last one, where I was unsure if they meant sucesfully impeached or just had the proceedings, and the assassination one, which I somehow skipped over.
Of the other 5, there is only one I feel dumb for missing, the length of a reps term.
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You, ma'am, are a scholar and a... lady, I guess!
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Good god. I know about as much American Civics as the average house cat. I pretty much got a perfect score as far as the history questions, but all the technical questions about the actual government I bombed. I mean all of them.
That's rough.
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The "proceedings" generally are the trial. The impeachment is what begets the "proceedings", with the result determining removal from office. Impeachment is almost like a fancy government word for "indictment".
I just forgot that in that frickin' circus, there actually was an impeachment in there somewhere. They were grilling Clinton pretty hard when they were thinking about impeaching him.
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I'm neither a lawyer nor a constitutional scholar, but my understanding is that undergoing the proceedings == being impeached. The House has the power of impeachment; the Senate passes judgment on the impeachment. Clinton was impeached and found not guilty.
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23. Not bad for a Canadian. Feel stupid about missing the official language one. Rest of them I missed were mostly numbers on amendments.
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4 wrong. Annoying test; many of the questions are trivia, not information that actually matters. It's very typical of how knowledge is measured nowadays; can you regurgitate facts about the Constitution, as opposed to actually understanding what it means?
I mean, who cares how many amendments proposed by Congress haven't passed?
I got 28 right, missing which president was born in Texas (I knew Johnson was, but I didn't know who else would have been) and who said "Give me liberty or give me death
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I missed 2, I read the length of term question for the House of Representatives wrong and guessed the wrong number for which set the voting age at 18.
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That because this changes.. that is if you believe that sort of thing.
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I think that the non-ratified amendments are kinda interesting, in a what-might-have-been sort of way. IIRC, back in the day there was a proportional representation amendment that, if the rules were applied today, would mean we'd have *thousands* of Representatives in the House. (You think Congress is slow now.) And right before the Civil War, there was another one said Congress couldn't meddle in state institutions; imagine the impact that would have had in the slave states if it had passed.
And, of course, two of the non-ratified amendments happened in the last 40 years - the ERA and D.C. voting rights amendment. Having grown up in the D.C. area, I knew people firsthand who were still a little sore over that last one.
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While I agree with you, I think Malor would as well. You don't think it's interesting that X amendments haven't passed (ZOMG!), what you find interesting and I find interesting and I think what Malor finds interesting is what that means. What does it mean that not all amendments are ratified? What does it mean that this amendment was and this was not? That's the kind of thing that's interesting and useful and involves critical thinking, but is too hard to test for, so it's not taught. Instead students memorize how many amendments there are and what year and what they do without understanding the why of the issue (which is the important part afterall).
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