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Civics Lesson (#1099)
Posted: 4/14/2003; 12:14 PM by Terry Frazier
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A recent Columbia Law School survey found that only 31% of adult Americans were sure that Karl Marx didn't help write the U.S. Constitution. I wonder how this happened?

[...] This lack of proficiency [in civics] leads to some serious misconceptions, as a recent Columbia Law School survey showed. Although the Founding Fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution to protect individual rights and property, one-third of adult Americans think the document contains the Karl Marx maxim that negates all rights to property: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Only 31 percent of respondents were sure Marx’s words weren’t in the Constitution, while the remaining third didn’t know. [...] [The Heartland Institute]
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