GOALS
- No person shall be considered a “citizen of the United States”, but only of one of the several states that are so united. (The Union is not a union of people, but of sovereign states. The only members to the Union, therefore, are those member states, and not the people directly.)
- It is not in the best interests of the Union that citizens should have a vote for any federal office, except such citizens be well-informed and of good character. This is impossible to measure, of course, by any perfect method. A minimal substitute measure, however, would be this: No person shall have the right to vote for federal offices (President, Vice President, and House of Representatives), except that person shall have passed a standard test on the US Constitution. No oath of loyalty to the Constitution shall be required, but only a demonstration that the document and its rules are satisfactorily understood by the citizen wishing to vote. Yes, this requires that the citizen be capable of reading. It further assumes that the citizen will CARE enough about the process to go to the trouble of studying for and taking such test. Tests must be administered by the States, free of charge, and must be uncheatable. The test shall be good for 5 years, and then must be passed again to retain voter status.
- No person shall run for office who is not also qualified as a voter, having passed the test mentioned above.