Millennials Have Trouble Naming 1A Freedoms

This month, a new study was released analyzing Americans’ perception of the First Amendment, as well as their knowledge of what it entails. As many would expect, the results were bleak.

For example, 40 percent of those surveyed were unable to list any of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, while another 36 percent could list just one.

Wanting to know if millennials at an Ivy League School would fare better,  Cabot Phillips of Campus Reform headed to Columbia University to talk with young people about their knowledge of the First Amendment.

Offering $20 to any person who could tell him the five freedoms guaranteed under the amendment (Speech, Religion, Assembly, Press, and Petition), it quickly became clear no one would be going home with the money.