Education: Let Freedom Ring?

Most Americans honestly believe that they hold the document sacred—but how many really agree with the various freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution? Not many, if a sampling produced last week by Sociologists Robert McGinnis of the University of Wisconsin and Raymond W. Mack of Northwestern is to be taken as good evidence. Sampled: students at the two universities and teachers in the Wisconsin public schools, who were asked whether they agree or disagree with 14 statements based on the Bill of Rights. Whether the students went to a public or private school made no difference. Nor did it, matter whether they...

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