New York – Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayorquestioning whether Americans understand the difference between a king and a president, he told the New York Law School crowd Tuesday that improving civic education nationwide would help people make better decisions.
SotomayorIn the panel discussion at the Constitution and Citizen Day Summit, no public political comments were made, nor did any current disputes be directly resolved. President Donald Trump has not been mentioned.
However, at some point, she doubted how many people the citizens in the school taught.
“Do we understand the difference between a king and a president? And I think if people know these things from the beginning, they’ll have a better understanding of the importance of democracy in terms of what people can or shouldn’t do,” she said.
She condemned the lack of education about citizens and how democracy works, and even at the end of the Philadelphia Constitution, her version gave Ben Franklin a famous anecdote when he was asked whether there was a republic or a monarchy in the country.
“Madam, we have a republic if we can keep it.”
Sotomayor It is known as “one of the biggest causes of misinformation on the Internet”.
“If you only listen to the story side, you won’t make an informed decision.” Sotomayor explain. “The world is a complex place, and problems are always difficult.”
The Bronx-born Justice said she was interested in grammar schools’ citizens, where she began to debate issues and improved those skills as she learned to debate both sides of a question.
At the end of the speech, she urged to watch her in a large auditorium or on a video screen in an overflow room to think about everything wrong in the world, and “everything happening in America” and realize that “we adults really messed up this.”
She said she expects today’s students to find solutions.
