Can Millennials explain the First Amendment?

-Source-Campus Reform- This month a new study was released analyzing Americans perception of the First Amendment as well as their knowledge of what it entails. As many would expect the results were bleak. For example 40 percent of those surveyed were unable to list any of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment while another 36 percent could list just one. Now I feel like I need to go home and just read... Tweet This RELATED: SURVEY: Americans support 1A rights but dont know what they are Wanting to know if millennials at an Ivy League School would fare better I headed to Columbia University to talk with young people about their knowledge of the First Amendment. Offering $20 to any person who could tell me the five freedoms guaranteed under the amendment (Speech Religion Assembly Press and Petition) it quickly became clear no one would be going home with the money. No I have no idea" said one student when asked if he could name any of the five while another asked if the right to bear arms" was found under the First Amendment.