You'd be surprised at how many Americans don't understand how Presidential pardons work either.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/22/trump-used-...
Or the non-existent controversy over Clinton pardoning Patty Hearst and members of the Weather Underground?
Or the non-existent controversy over Clinton pardoning his half-brother?
Or the non-existent controversy over Obama commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning?
But if what you're fishing for is that Assange did more for the world, was more dis-proportionally persecuted with less legal justification, then yes.
Listing the pardons by appropriateness is just one component that may help analyze the issue. That’s what I meant by asking the question.
Above all I do not want to argue politics. I am not a supporter of the previous President. Nor am I a supporter of the current. In the past I have voted for Democrats and Republicans but I’m pretty sure it’s protest 3rd party votes for me for the foreseeable future.
Are there more and do you think other administrations have participated in this affront to justice?
IMO our education system should be focused primarily understanding and respecting history, law and civics.
I think the vast majority of Americans have no idea about any of the basics of the American system, which is frankly... scary.
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that civics and history aren't going to stick any better than any other subject until critical thinking has first been taught.
When you (plural) are making 6-figures a year, living in some high class inner suburb, working for some employer who has tons of money sloshing around, you don't need to be good at playing the game because you can just pay your way.
Poor communities need to actually be good at playing the game in order to be heard.
In both cases it shouldn't be a requirement; we don't demand studying the NEC before using electricity.
And even those with a very good understanding of the constitution and civics probably don't have a very good handling on the actualities of how everything works, unless perhaps they're a criminal lawyer.
The amendments are another 15 pages, which is mostly taken up by footnotes about which states ratified them when. On https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights and https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Additional_amendments_to_the_... we have 809 and 2698 words respectively. That's another 10 minutes of reading.
Also, most of that text is unchanged since 01789, and it hasn't changed at all since 01992, when one sentence was added. If you'd spent those 22½ minutes in 01992 you'd still be up to date. And it is in the public domain, so it is easy to obtain.
NFPA's National Electrical Code (I assume that's the one you mean) is over 1000 pages, and a new version comes out each year.
Since we're in a democracy, every election involves everyday citizens adjusting the wiring of our government. Doubly so in states that allow voter-initiated statutes and constitutional amendments via referendum.
Of course most people are never going to be arguing cases before the supreme court or writing laws, and those would require far more expertise than anyone needs. At the same time, most people will never be mathematicians but we still have math classes. No one is becoming a master in a subject from primary education, but they should have some basic literacy in the subject and a foundation to build upon.
While people born in the US automatically have citizenship, my personal belief is that people should have to pass the citizenship tests to get the right to vote.
btw, I'm in Australia, and our voting is compulsory (or at least being enrolled and being crossed off as submitting a ballot paper, the vote itself is secret).
I think if we're going to set tests for citizenship for foreigners before they're allowed to become citizens, why shouldn't the same tests apply to locals?
I mean, you're not wrong, but that's not what the majority of schools' funding is staked upon.