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It's an arbitrary and easy to remember number.

Which just makes it worse because the people who supply the military have an incentive to spread production out across as many States and Congressional districts as they can.

One problem there is the beancounters' desire for "do everything" solutions which wind up costing way more than a suite of specialized tools would.

We could probably ditch the test and the increase in the number of immigrants who are naturalized each year could be chalked up to "a rounding error". Seriously, in '20 a little less than 630k immigrants were naturalized and that's the second lowest it's been since '08, when about 1.05 million...

That test is probably the least difficult hoop a legal immigrant to the US must jump through before they're naturalized and more of a "dot all the i's and cross all the t's" checkbox instead of a stumbling block. Unlike Australia, English proficiency is not a requirement. Australia has denied...

@posh-goofiness the problem with requiring the passing of a test before you're allowed to vote isn't with the test itself. It's with those who write and administer the test. They'll do everything they can to make it so that those they don't approve of will fail the test. The Voting Rights Act...

It makes no sense whatsoever to deny citizenship due to ignorance or mental deficiency. If we do a line will be drawn and that line will creep ever higher because those just barely above the line will always be considered "idiots".

The ADA is pretty much why public buildings in the US are accessable to wheelchair bound veterans who've lost limbs. That spacious gas station restroom much larger than the half-bath with a sink, mirror, and toilet in your home is probably about as small as an architect can get away with while...

It was a typo, not a gotcha.

Can you tell me why a whole bunch of places in the US are named after the French guy named Gilbert du Mortier who helped write Le Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789? I'll give you a clue: La Fayette

@ParadiseLost thinks the test should be harder even when most Americans probabaly can't name the first Treasury Secertay despite the fact that they're looking at an engraving of his portrait when they see a ten dollar bill.

I took the practice test again a few times. The questions vary and are randomized. It's designed to test general knowledge of the US, not minutiae.

The last time a cop asked me for ID I didn't have my wallet. I told him my name and that's all he needed.

The test itself is a poll tax. No American should ever be required to provide ID beyond what's required for them to say "yup, I'm 'so-and-so'".

Do you think you could pass that test? I had to look up one answer for a practice test: 2008 Civics Practice Test | USCIS The one I had to look up was asking about the Federalist Papers.

You're also promoting something along the lines of a poll tax, which the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution flat out prohibits. BTW: In the Americas your birthplace automatically grants you citizenship. In Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania that's often not true.

I am not OK with making someone born in the US or to a US citizen prove that they're American by taking tests. As far as I'm concerned ... if you were born in the US or have an American parent you're an American. John Sidney McCain III wasn't born in the US. He was born in Panama and no one...