A new report found that 82 percent of Americans want the benefits of free markets taught in high school.

As the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence nears, it looks like Americans overwhelmingly approve of their country's cardinal principles.

That's the top-line finding from a recent survey conducted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) about the legacy of America's founding. While its results did reflect a generational divide—baby boomers were much friendlier to the Founding than Gen Z—73 percent of the younger generation still agreed that "the founders deserve respect…for how they set up the United States." And 74 percent of Gen Z respondents agreed that "studying the political principles of the founding fathers can help inform our decisions today."

Support for Founding principles was also impressively robust across party lines: 92 percent of Republicans and 77 percent of Democrats said that it was "more important than ever to teach all kids the history of the founding fathers."

But though the sentiment is generally popular, its specific implementations tend to be rather controversial. In Florida, a recently devised A.P. U.S. History alternative, which casts the Founding and its Enlightenment-influenced classical liberalism in a rosier light, has been characterized by the media as an "anti-woke" reaction and a specifically "conservative" reform.

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