4/84Percentage of Americans too young to remember the Bicentennial: 25
Life before television: 69
11/87Price of a.44 Magnum pistol issued to commemorate the Constitution’s anniversary: $1,295
7/91Number of the original 13 American states that cannot locate their handwritten original copy of the Bill of Rights: 4
7/92Percentage of Americans who believe that the president can suspend the Bill of Rights during wartime: 23
Chances that an American does not know that the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution: 2 in 3
7/94Number of Thomas Jefferson’s slaves who escaped to join the British during the American Revolution: 22
10/95Chances that a Republican House member voted last June against a constitutional amendment banning flag desecration: 1 in 20
2/95Percentage of Americans who believe that George Washington would be disappointed in the federal government today: 86
7/95Percentage of Americans who believe citizens do not have the right to buy and store “large quantities of weapons”: 71
Percentage who say armed, antigovernment groups should be infiltrated “even if it infringes on their constitutional rights”: 72
10/96Number of Constitutional amendments called for in the Republican Party platform: 7
7/96Cost per minute to hear the Bill of Rights read over the phone “in a provocative manner” by a woman named Bambi: $1.98
12/97Number of legal experts who declared the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill to be constitutional: 126
12/98Chance that a House member voted last June in favor of a constitutional amendment allowing school prayer: 1 in 2
Chance that a member attended Congress’s opening daily prayer on any of the three days preceding the vote: 1 in 29
2/98Gallons of liquor George Washington distributed to his district’s voters before his first election to office in 1758: 160
2/99Weeks after DNA testing confirmed Bill Clinton’s adultery last fall that such testing confirmed Thomas Jefferson’s as well: 7
6/99Percentage of Alabamans who oppose removing the state’s constitutional ban on interracial marriage: 26
1/00Percentage of the French government’s 1788 expenditures that went to support the court at Versailles: 6
Percentage that went to finance war debt resulting from France’s support of the colonies in the American Revolution: 50
1/00Chance that a New York State resident in 1776 was a slave: 1 in 7
2/00Number of textbook reproductions of George Washington Crossing the Delaware retouched by a Georgia school last year: 2,322
Number of parental complaints that prompted the school to decide that Washington’s watch fob resembled genitalia: 0
4/00Minimum number of laws passed in Peru since 1992 that violate at least one article of the country’s constitution: 91
7/00Portion of the funding for a national monument to black Revolutionary War soldiers that has been raised since 1985: 1/5
1/02Number of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU: 5
7/03Hours Alexander Hamilton spent in 1787 arguing at the Constitutional Convention that America should have a king: 5
5/05Percentage of Republicans who say they would vote for Bush over George Washington: 62
1/09Percentage of the amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU: 50