Before I am Famous

The boyfriend’s brother and I were talking about the citizenship test and how most Americans can not pass the test. I told him that I could. Really I think that all Americans should score 80% or better on the test. If not what does that say about our civic pride and our education system? Well I googled citizenship test and I found a sample test on MSNBC.

Good news, out of 20 questions asked I got one wrong. I scored 95%. The questions are mulitple choice. One question I just guessed because it was about the form for naturalization, I got this one right. The one I got wrong I believe is a trick question. The question was “who can declare war?” congress, the president and some other choices. I chose the president. Wrong it is congress but if I am not mistaken then president can declare war in but must get congressional approval with 48 hours or something. Maybe I am wrong maybe the president can only send troops in. Technicalities of wording but if you live in a foreign country and you see the American army coming and there hasn’t been a natural disaster and there is no war going on what would you think?

I am almost positve President Bush declared war on Iraq before congress approved it. Though shock and awe happened a few years ago, I might have to research on that because the details are fuzzy.

On the flipside I know my constitution. I am a firm believer in the consitution and I used to read it over and over. I believe in the freedoms it grants and I believe in the words. Want to take the test you can find it here and by the way you, if you made it this far you should at least have one answer right because I gave it to you.

Take the quiz just to see how much you know, just think the people that take this want to be American for those that are American we should be lucky of our birthright.

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