Yes, they are assigned to every freshman political science class in American colleges. This is part of the brainwashing that goes into making a docile population that will dutifully go to the ballot box every 2 or 4 years and vote for one of the two ruling class parties and therefore feel that it is exercising its democratic rights. This hoax, along with racism, are the two strategic devices of the capitalist system to maintain its rule.
Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)