That's a question I find myself asking regularly these days. When did it happen? When did our education system stop teaching basic civics? When did they stop explaining how our government was set up and how it was supposed to function?
I ask this because I can still remember back in eighth grade "Social Studies" when we were taught how our government was a Constitutional Republic. A Union of individual States organized under a Federal Government who had a very clearly enumerated set of powers. And that the powers not specifically given to the Federal Government were the purview of the