 The US government has unveiled a new citizenship test for immigrants which will focus on the concepts of democracy rather than on historical facts. However, immigrant rights groups have rejected the new test, describing it as an anti-immigrant measure. Officials said the aim was to encourage immigrants to learn about the country's civic values to become better citizens. The new questions will be tried out on immigrant volunteer groups before being included in the new test. Why don’t they want them to learn the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? At least they would learn that those are now totally trashed, also we were to be a Republic not a Democracy. If fact, Democracy is not mentioned in the Constitution, but it is mentioned in the Federalist papers, as the worst form of government, and that’s what they fooled you into thinking we have. It’s not an simple oversight that it’s not taught in school anymore. People might start thinking if they ever took the time to read it ...
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