Now, sure, it remains true that most 16-year-olds aren't very well-informed about current events and how their government works. But that's also true of most Americans. Surveys show only 1 in 4 can name the three branches of government; more than half believe the Constitution affords no rights whatsoever to undocumented immigrants and that it specifies the U.S. is a Christian nation; roughly a third think the federal government spends more on foreign aid than anything else; and so depressingly on.