Hillsdale College has launched a major national campaign to educate millions of citizens about the meaning and history of the U.S. Constitution as an online course, Constitution 101, and it’s free! If you can’t answer these 32 questions, you should sign up for Constitution 101. In the meantime, you can …
Below are the questions from a midterm exam I prepared for a civics class for homeschooled teenagers. Every American voter should know the answers. 1. Name the three classes of citizens in Plato’s Republic. 2. According to Aristotle, what are the three proper forms of government? 3. What are the …
When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on …
Below are the questions from a midterm exam I prepared for a civics class for homeschooled teenagers. Every American voter should know the answers. 1. Name the three classes of citizens in Plato’s Republic. 2. According to Aristotle, what are the three proper forms of government? 3. What are the …
“Mad About US” will get schoolchildren “hooked on history,” by telling the story of America in an exciting new way — through lively songs, dramatic pictures, and inspirational accounts of our country’s greatest leaders. . . . “Mad About US” will teach the basics of American history to children between …
[W]e must recover our appreciation of the beauty of constitutional government. That beauty consists first of all in an appreciation for the place of man in nature, not so high as the angels, not so low as the beasts. To recognize that place is to recognize the dignity of every …
