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Well I guess you should not be allow to vote then since you clearly have never even read the US Constitution.
The privilege to vote is not explicitly guaranteed. It only illustrates the conditions in which it cannot be denied. The privilege also lost upon committing a felony, yet that's not in the constitution, is it?
Why punish the voters? Shouldnt it be the means by which politicians present their position, and themselves, to the voters that needs adjustment?
Shuddering at your sick need to be cruel.
The politicians can promise anything to the people. The intelligent, of which there are fewer, are disenfranchised by the sheer majority of the ignorant breed-like-rabbit folks who believe the lies. This goes equally for rednecks as well as minorities.
You have got to be kidding me. Forcing people to spend a couple of hours to understand the issues they are going to be voting for with a right hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have died to defend is CRUEL??? what????
I said NOTHING about property ownership or racial requirements. I didn't say require college degrees. I said BASIC info that ANYONE can go to a public library and find in two hours.
Actually, that's so naive and simplistic that, considering the fundamental cruel purpose of your proposal, I have to believe it's tongue-in-cheek.
The civil war era south was full of less educated agrarian individuals, so your statement makes no sense.
If you knew the first thing about history, you would know that my comment makes perfect sense. Anyone advocating a "literacy test" is living in the late 1800s.
[quote=Jill61;9666269]If you knew the first thing about history, you would know that my comment makes perfect sense. Anyone advocating a "literacy test" is living in the late 1800s.
I don't see anything in this amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. I do see however the interpretation:
The Fifteenth Amendment is the third of the Reconstruction Amendments. This amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from using a citizen's race,[1] color or previous status as a slave as a voting qualification.
Nope, don't see the explicit right.
As for homeschooling, I managed to get my Ph. D. despite all of the public schooling I received.
This IS NOT an attempt to disenfranchise ANYONE. It is an attempt to force people to understand the issues surrounding the votes they are going to cast. I didn't say make people take a calculus exam. I said BASIC questions.
Since some on here are too dense to understand this, I'll give an example:
BAD QUESTION
Name all of the elements of the periodic table.
GOOD QUESTION
What rights does the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantee?
A. Press, Speech, Petition, Assembly, Religion
B. Free Healthcare
C. Retirement Benefits
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