{"id":1782,"date":"2005-09-27T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/american_civics\/"},"modified":"2005-09-27T08:42:48","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T12:42:48","slug":"american_civics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/american_civics\/","title":{"rendered":"American Civics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanews.org\/docs\/divisionofpowers_705.pdf\">don&#8217;t have a clue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just over half (55%) of Americans can correctly identify the three branches of government.<br \/>\n&#8722;-More than one in five (22%) believe the three branches of government are the Republican, Democrat, and Independent branches.<br \/>\n&#8722;-A full 16% of respondents believe the three branches of government to be local, state, and federal.<br \/>\nLess than half (48%) of Americans can correctly identify the meaning of the concept of separation of powers.<br \/>\n&#8722;-However, almost two-thirds (63%) report being very or somewhat familiar with the separation of powers principle.<br \/>\n&#8722;-82% feel that the separation of powers is important, while only 5% report that it is not important or they do not know what it means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that so many people don&#8217;t even know what government should be doing, much less what it is doing, I guess it&#8217;s no surprise that accountability is so scarce in Washington these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/american_civics\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to American Civics\"><p>Many people don&#8217;t have a clue: Just over half (55%) of Americans can correctly identify the three branches of government. &#8722;-More than one in five (22%) believe the three branches of government are the Republican, Democrat, and Independent branches. &#8722;-A full 16% of respondents believe the three branches of government to be local, state, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}