4.24.2008

Is your citizenship questionable? [update]

So I've been taking these Citizenship tests through Facebook and one that my mother sent to me (I feel that the status of my citizenship is due almost entirely to she and my father, so why do I have to take the quiz??) and realized that apart from the first five amendments on the Bill of Rights, the Prohibition Act, the Repealing of the Prohibition Act, and the Suffrage Amendment...I really have no idea what's in our constitution as of right now. As a result I went and dug up a list, and have placed it on this blog in case anyone else gets a little worried about GWB maybe meddling in the Presidential term-limit laws...Amendment 22, people. Protect our Constitution: don't let that man near it.

The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net (link is same as above.)

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In case you were wondering, I got a 26 out of 30 on the official citizenship test. Things I did not know were:

  1. How many proposed amendments were never ratified (6).
  2. Which amendment is current and valid (Prohibiting import of liquor into states where liquor is illegal...we can still buy it and drink it, but we can't carry it across certain state lines. Um. Oops).
  3. What is the official language of the United States (there IS no official language. Take that, all you honkies who say "This is America. We speak English here." Well, yessss...and no).
  4. How many presidents were impeached (2. I thought it was 1, but I forgot that Andrew Jackson was also impeached. Both he and Clinton were afterward acquitted, which means that Congress is kind of wishy-washy).

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