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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is sounding the alarm on the steep decline in civic literacy in classrooms across the United States \u2014 a trend Gorsuch said ultimately prompted him to co-author a new children\u2019s book with the aim of educating the next generation about America\u2019s founding principles.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fox News Digital in a recent interview, Gorsuch said his new book, “Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration,” was created to address the steep decline in civic education and history<\/a> in the U.S. among both school-aged children and adults.<\/p>\n

“Only about 13% of kids today in eighth grade are proficient in American history \u2014 [and just] 22% in civics,” Gorsuch told Fox News Digital. “Six out of 10 adults would fail our citizenship test.<\/p>\n

Those numbers, he said, reflect a “deeply” concerning reality and were ultimately what inspired the book’s creation.<\/p>\n

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“That\u2019s how [my co-author] hooked me,” Gorsuch said, referring to Janie Nitze, his former clerk and co-author.<\/p>\n

“She says, \u2018You have been complaining about the state of civic education in this country for a long time,'” Gorsuch said. “She\u2019s right. … So, it’s time to do something about it, I figured.”<\/p>\n

Gorsuch has long sought to improve the state of civic education programs for young people in the U.S. \u2014 a goal that predates his nomination as a Supreme Court<\/a> justice.<\/p>\n

He recently told Fox News Sunday that the new book took “a lot of inspiration” from former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who famously founded a civics education nonprofit after stepping down from the bench.<\/p>\n

“As she was leaving the court, she reflected that civic education in this country is a problem,” Gorsuch said of O’Connor’s work. “And for a lot of reasons, it’s simply not being taught anymore.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So I do think we have a big problem, because we are a creedal nation, again, not based on race or religion, but based on an idea, three great ideas, I think,” he said. “And if you don’t know what they are, the history and the people that made them possible, how can you possibly carry them on?”<\/p>\n

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Gorsuch noted in 2019 that just one-third of Americans could name all three branches of government \u2014 a concerning decline, he said, given that the three branches interact and crucially “check”<\/a> one another against unmitigated overreach.<\/p>\n

Without this separation of powers, Gorsuch said at the time, promises of freedom “are just words on a page.”<\/p>\n

“What Madison knew is that people are not angels,” he told Fox & Friends<\/a>. “And that we need to separate powers that keep us free.”<\/p>\n

Now, he’s hoping to bring that message to a younger audience.<\/p>\n

Gorsuch said their goal in writing the book \u2014 which features striking, hand-painted illustrations alongside stories of well-known revolutionaries and young people during the Revolutionary War \u2014 was to inspire children by highlighting the role they played in shaping the nation, 250 years ago.<\/p>\n

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“Young people have been remarkable contributors to our country throughout history,” Gorsuch said, listing teenagers named in the book, who participated in the war directly, or as spies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“We wanted to inspire young people. That was a huge part of it,” Gorsuch said.<\/p>\n

He stressed that civic education is not a partisan issue on the high court \u2014 adding that in fact, the issue is one that unifies all nine Supreme Court justices<\/a>, regardless of their ideology.<\/p>\n

“If you polled the nine of us in our conference room,” Gorsuch said of the justices, “one thing we could all agree on is the importance of learning American history.”<\/p>\n

“Because how else are you going to carry this thing forward? Somebody has to run the zoo,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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