http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
I ran across the above link earlier this evening and took the quiz. I invite you to take the quiz and then evaluate your score with the results compared to additional information on the following link from the same organization.
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/content/our_fading_heritage_11-20-08.pdf
In case you wonder...I got a fraction less than 85%.
My point in inviting you to take the test is not a means of passing or failing your knowledge base of politics and basic US civics. More so, it's a means of demonstrating (according to the statistics developed by this group) the simple lack of understanding and awareness of political history and civics from our own elected officials...we are the ones that should be held to a higher regard of understanding of our own political history and how said knowledge should relate to present policy making.
"What is important to know, if one wants to understand foreign policy, is not primarily the motives of a statesman, but his intellectual ability to comprehend the essentials of foreign policy, as well as his political ability to translate what he has comprehended into successful political action"---from Hans J. Morgenthau's "Politics Among Nations", Fifth Edition, 1973
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