Can you pass the US citizenship test?

Mike Ventrella

Mike Ventrella

Duke
A recent study showed that 3.5% -- that's not a typo -- only 3.5% of High School graduates in Arizona could pass a US citizenship test. There's something very wrong there, although it helps to explain things like Sarah Palin.

How well can you do?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13442226/

I got a 95% because I missed the question that asked which form I should use for taking my citizenship exam. I don't think that one should count though, so as far as I am concerned, I got a 100%. (Then again, I am a political junkie with degrees in Political Science and Law).
 
95%

Had no idea what form is used by the INS for citizenship
 
100% and I'm not even a citizen yet... I guess the studying did help :P

Paul
 
85% >.< guess I should brush up on my history...
 
85% Is a passing grade. What scares me is how few people passed in the sample.

Paul
 
95%--I guessed on the form question. No idea on that one!

BTW, I could easily see how someone who just follows the news would get #18 wrong. Of course Congress has the power to declare war, but they haven't used that power since WWII. We've been in a large number of foreign wars since then (all unconstitutional) because they did not have a formal declaration.

iPhone users--download a free app called "Your Rights." It includes the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Federalist Papers, a bunch of ACLU stuff, and how to deal with confrontations with Law Enforcement in certain situations (really important to know your rights here).
 
95%, and the one I got wrong was a stupid error on my part. It does make me sad just how many people who live here and scream about their rights have no idea what those rights really are or where they come from.
 
Then again, many of the questions are "trivia" type questions. It really doesn't matter whether Due Process is in the 5th or the 7th amendment, what's more important is whether you understand what it means.
 
100%. W00T!
 
Frankly I don't give a flying fart about most of these questions. You can get a 100% on this test and still be a total mockery of a citizen. I sincerely doubt the citizenship test bears anything more than a vague resemblance to this little trivia quiz.
 
95% correct. Just got the supreme court chief justice wrong. Hooray, I know stuff!

Also, while we haven't declared war since WWII, we haven't technically been in a war since. I think they've been defined as police actions (or something of the sort). I know it's semantics, but it's something the president can do for a given duration, then they need congressional approval to keep at it.

Could someone who knows more about this please tell me if I'm right?
 
Only Congress can declare war. The president can deploy troops for 60 days per the War Powers Resolution before he has to get Congress to authorize further action or declare war outright.

We haven't been in an actual declared war since WW2, however Congress has authorized military action without a declaration of war repeatedly since. Honestly, given the UN's attitude towards declarations of war as violating restrictions on the use of force in diplomacy, I don't expect we'll ever see another formally declared war short of an actual invasion of US soil. There's no need.
 
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