Gorsuch Takes Aim at Civics Decline With New Book

There is a entire lot that is incorrect with public training. Students are no longer being taught studying, writing, and arithmetic, but being indoctrinated into leftist ideology. They are also not being taught American historical past and basic civics. But one distinguished American is doing his half to inspire the next era to study the historical past of America and why that historical past makes us the best nation in the world, along with some beneficial classes in civics.

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It’s that sharp decline in younger people’s data of how and why America was based, and our kind of authorities, that prompted Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to write “Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration.” The ebook is aimed at both school-aged children and adults. During a current interview selling the ebook, Gorsuch gave some startling figures: 

“Only about 13% of kids today in eighth grade are proficient in American history — [and just] 22% in civics. Six out of 10 adults would fail our citizenship test.”

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Gorsuch added that those numbers reveal a lack of basic data about the nation of Americans, both younger and outdated, that is “deeply” regarding. It’s a trigger that Gorsuch started working on before he turned a Supreme Court Justice. Gorsuch added that a lot of his inspiration for the ebook got here from former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who based a civics non-profit after her time on the nation’s highest court. Gorsuch said of O’Connor and her work,

“As she was leaving the court, she reflected that civic education in this country is a problem. And for a lot of reasons, it’s simply not being taught anymore.” 

Gorsuch supplied up some other disturbing details. In 2019, only one-third of Americans might title all three branches of authorities. He acknowledged that this was regarding, given the fact that all three branches “interact” and “check” one another against overreach. 

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State…”

From Justice Gorsuch’s new kids’s ebook pic.twitter.com/Ledxoo99px

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The objective of the ebook, that includes the tales of those who had been concerned in the nation’s founding and the Revolutionary War, including many younger people, is to inspire today’s younger Americans by highlighting those tales, particularly in the yr of America’s 250th birthday. By today’s requirements, some of America’s first revolutionaries had been fairly younger. James Monroe was just 18, Alexander Hamilton was 21, James Madison was 25, and Thomas Jefferson was 33. 

We know why American historical past and civics are no longer taught in public faculties. The agenda of the academics’ unions shouldn’t be for college students to be educated in historical past and civics, but in climate change, transgender points, and why America is inherently a racist nation. They know that if children are taught about historical past or civics, it is going to be that a lot more durable to indoctrinate them on left-wing ideology and hate the nation. 

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Gorsuch said that historical past and civics training is not a left- or right-issue for him and his fellow justices. He added, “If you polled the nine of us in our conference room, one thing we could all agree on is the importance of learning American history.”

That settlement among the justices on Americans’ data of historical past and civics is encouraging. Neil Gorsuch summed it up, saying, “Because how else are you going to carry this thing forward? Somebody has to run the zoo.” 

Justice Neil Gorsuch: “We’re a creedal nation. What unites us is not a religion, not a race, it’s a belief in those ideas in the Declaration of Independence.” pic.twitter.com/SbUWO1BajM

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) May 6, 2026

Editor’s Note: President Trump is combating to guarantee America’s children get the training they deserve.

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