tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621026.post4862498697830283427..comments2024-03-29T06:05:04.162+01:00Comments on Robert's Stochastic thoughts: The Religious right, the Declaration of Independence and JeffersonRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14455788499385673507noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621026.post-28380409087849731382013-05-01T09:40:43.948+02:002013-05-01T09:40:43.948+02:00I'm from the USA. I know less about Italian e...I'm from the USA. I know less about Italian education than US education (just as a not as involved as I might be parent). Italian history goes on and on (Rome wasn't built in a day). They barely get to the current constitution. <br /><br />The Italian Constitution is very long. It is also very much a compromise document with alternating clauses which declare a right then reduce it to nothing (basically saying there is a right and it is up to Parliament to define it further -- which means that the 2 clauses add nothing to the clause saying Parliament is sovereign). I'd say almost no one in Italy has read the constitution once (I did). <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I recall extensive discussion of the Declaration and Constitution in high school history. Also a good bit other times. Now I was in high school in 1976 (yes I'm old) so there was all that bicentenial stuff. <br /><br /> The odd thing is that people talk about the Constitution and the Declaration all the time, they are very brief, they are on the web, no one seems to re-read them before commenting.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14455788499385673507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621026.post-51517828156266852082013-04-30T19:45:34.810+02:002013-04-30T19:45:34.810+02:00It's a really big mistake to assume that Ameri...It's a really big mistake to assume that American conservatives (or American liberals, for that matter) are actually knowledgeable about the text of the Declaration of Independence or much of the Constitution, or even very informed on American history. Most American high school history courses jump from Yorktown (1781) to the Constitution (1789) in the space of a single breath, and students seldom waste their lives pursuing other details.<br /><br />Is it so different in Italy?mike shupphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08383379836883992742noreply@blogger.com