The Liberty Bill Act

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The Liberty Bill
The add that I have chosen to analize is an add for the liberty bill act. The goal of the liberty bill act is to change the back of the one-dollar. The bill would be changed from the current eye in the pyramid and crested eagle to the entire preamble and an abbreviated version of the seven articles and twenty-seven amendments. The idea started in 1997 as a public middle school civics project and as the add states “It has grown into a national movement”. Which is interesting because this add was my first introduction to this national movement. Coincidently the project started at Liberty Middle School in Ashland Virginia. I believe that this Liberty Bill Act is for the most part a great idea and a great way to increase the knowledge and understanding of the foundation of which our government stands on, not just to the millions of Americans who are unaware of what the constitution entails, but to the whole world.
The first line of the add reads “Only six percent of Americans know all the rights and freedoms found in the first amendment- the rest of the world would like to learn them”. The first part of this statement is truly a startling fact, especially noting that Americans for the most part are so proud of their freedoms and basic rights. It’s quite a frightening statistic that ninety-six percent can’t list the freedoms included in the first amendment, I would be very afraid to know the percentage that could list all twenty-seven amendments, or even knew how many amendments there are. I think that if we had this new bill the six percent figure would increase to over fifty percent, and republicans and democrats alike would have to see that as a great accomplishment.
I do have a slight problem with the second part of the statement “the rest of the world would like to know them” I think this is a bit misleading and should probably read “we would like the rest of the world to know them”. I j...