Future American citizenship should be earned not granted. Given to those born of Americans and completing 12 years of education successfully.
What about military service? Should citizenship only be granted to those who serve?
“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”
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Robert A. Heinlein,
Starship Troopers
“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”
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Robert A. Heinlein,
Starship Troopers
“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”
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Robert A. Heinlein,
Starship Troopers