Citizens, past present and future , native born or naturalized . All of us need to learn a few facts …. or better yet… embrace the ones we know to be true .
I know a couple who are studying hard to pass the required civics test in order to become U.S. citizens . They must be serious about it as they recently asked if I could help them by clarifying a few things that they find confusing and frankly it wasn’t as simple a task as I thought it might be . They showed me a list of about 100 questions that may, or may not appear on their test on the upcoming day . Straight up I’ll tell you right now that I have serious doubts that more than half the Americans I know would be able to ace this 100 question “quiz” .
The test seems to be designed to teach as well as test the knowledge of the taker in that many of the questons list multiple answers that would all be correct with no attempt to trip anyone up with multiple choice . All the provided answers are true and each choice is yours to make . There are questions on politics and history and even a little geography thrown in . I must admit the answer of slavery being listed after the question on the cause of the Civil War just sounds a bit more honest than the involuntary relocation of certain people . But who’s interested in honest nowadays I’m beginning to wonder .
Somewhere way down the list was an important one . It must have seemed important to the author of this test to become a U.S. Citizen as it provided four correct answers beneath it for the test taker to choose from .
What is the rule of Law ?
1. Everyone must follow the law
2. Leaders must obey the law
3. Government must obey the law
4. No one is above the law.
I’d say the whole point of my little story is moot as I’m sure the citizenship test will soon be rewritten to reflect what it truly means to be an American and questions on the rule of law or involuntary relocations will be redacted so that we all might embrace our new history ….
just saying
