If you want to vote, you have to be a citizen. We require immigrants seeking citizenship to pass a civics test to participate in government. Yet, we don't hol

If you want to vote, you have to be a citizen. We require immigrants seeking citizenship to pass a civics test to participate in government. Yet, we don't hold those born as citizens to the same standard. That practice is based in an understanding that a person born here would be raised holding the ideals of the country. That is no longer a given.