[Vision2020] Are You Smart Enough to Be a Citizen?

lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Mon Dec 9 12:03:35 PST 2013


My score was 68. I don't know what the total points are. I don't think I missed more than one or two.
 
Roger


-----Original Message-----
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: 12/07/13 11:27
Subject: [Vision2020] Are You Smart Enough to Be a Citizen?


Courtesy of The Atlantic at:


http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/what-if-you-had-to-earn-american-citizenship/309398/


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Are You Smart Enough to Be a Citizen? Take Our Quiz


To become a citizen of the United States, naturalizing immigrants must take a test. Many native-born Americans would fail this test. Indeed, most of us have never really thought about what it means to be a citizen. One radical idea from the immigration debate is the repeal of birthright citizenship-guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment-to prevent so-called anchor babies. Odious and constitutionally dubious as this proposal may be, it does prompt a thought experiment: What if citizenship were not, in fact, guaranteed by birth? What if everyone had to earn it upon turning 18, and renew it every 10 years, by taking an exam? What might that exam look like?


Take the quiz at:


http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/what-if-you-had-to-earn-american-citizenship/309398/


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Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .


"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


"There's room at the top they are telling you still  
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill." 


- John Lennon

 
 


 
 
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