A new survey conducted by the Freedom Forum Institute (pdf), a partner of Newseum, reveals a surprising number of Americans are unfamiliar with the First Amendment rights.
Out of the 1,009 respondents interviewed by phone between May and June, only one single person could name all five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. More astounding was that 40 percent of all respondents could not correctly identify any, according to the annually conducted survey which first began in 1997.
