VoteBook Citizenship Test Final Score:
You have completed the VoteBook Citizenship Test
Your score was 9 out of 10.
Congratulations! You are qualified to be a U.S. citizen!
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Some of these were easy: the one I missed was about the Allies in WWII which was a surprising question to see on there. I wasn’t aware the test had that many historical questions or of that depth.
Of course, this brings up an old rant of mine, making me akin to the Anabaptists: where they reject infant baptism, I wonder why citizenship at birth is such a good idea. When we see how little people know or care about what their government does in their name or, more importantly, how it derives the power to do it, I think everyone should take a citizenship test.
I can see the Right and Left opposing and supporting it for different reasons, which makes me think it might be worth doing.
The Right would support it because it excludes illegals and other arrivistes from endowing their children with citizenship. They would oppose it as an affront to their sense of entitlement.
The Left would support it as a boost to electoral literacy, believing as it does that when more people vote, progressives and the like win. But they would oppose it as potentially disenfranchising immigrants.
We test more rigorously before we grant someone the privilege of driving, no matter where the applicant is born: should the right to vote be easier to wield?