No it’s not. Like many other US laws, this one is pretty archaic. We tend to think that laws should be reasonable. Most often than not some of these weird condi

No it’s not. Like many other US laws, this one is pretty archaic. We tend to think that laws should be reasonable. Most often than not some of these weird conditions are just ways to placate members of some party and get their votes. So a lot of laws don’t really make much sense in practice, and the US Congress is completely dysfunctional due to structural reasons and severe partisanship so they’re not updating the laws.