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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Well, this “take-a-test to keep one’s citizenship” idea sounds like Big Government, and would be expensive to enforce and administer. Why not just grant citizenship only to landowners, and give them votes based on acres owned? Sound like a plan, or what?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Think about the exam every 10 years thing. Imagine walking up to the voting booth only to discover that your citizenship had run out 3 minutes ago? Statistical odds would suggest that such anomalies would occur at a significant rate. So much for the thought experiment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bob Dickow, troublemaker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Courtesy of <i>The Atlantic</i> at:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/what-if-you-had-to-earn-american-citizenship/309398/">http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/what-if-you-had-to-earn-american-citizenship/309398/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:25.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#242B30;letter-spacing:-.4pt'>Are You Smart Enough to Be a Citizen? Take Our Quiz<o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-variant:small-caps'><br><br></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=smallcaps><b><span style='font-variant:small-caps'>To become a citizen</span></b></span> of the United States, naturalizing immigrants must take a test. <span style='color:#1F497D'>…<snip>… </span>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?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>