flunkOrama

I can hardly contain my shock:

Opinion: Elected Officials Flunk Constitution Quiz: "Elected officials at many levels of government, not just the federal government, swear an oath to 'uphold and protect' the U.S. Constitution.

But those elected officials who took the test scored an average 5 percentage points lower than the national average (49 percent vs. 54 percent), with ordinary citizens outscoring these elected officials on each constitutional question. Examples:

Only 49 percent of elected officials could name all three branches of government, compared with 50 percent of the general public.

Only 46 percent knew that Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war -- 54 percent of the general public knows that."