Exact Quotes Test United States CONSTITUTION

CONSTITUTION: Strategy of Millions, rather than Hope in a Few Politicians

From THE AMERICAN TEST UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, Introduction:

"How exactly do we use the Constitution?"

"My answer is that, after several million more Americans are thoroughly exposed to the Constitution, solutions will naturally arise. Those that have some scholarly aptitude (whether it be for literature, medicine, logic, engineering, military strategy, economics, or some other) will find or invent several ways to harness the Constitution. No one told me how to use the Constitution; I had to figure it out on my own. Almost everyone’s situation will be different, and the Constitution applies in different ways to different situations. No matter what the case may be, for all situations in which the Constitution can be applied, the first step is thoroughly learning the document’s text and structure. After gaining a keen awareness of the statements and form of the document, citizens will discover and create measures to protect themselves and their community. The First and Second Amendments are important; however, there is much more to the Constitution than just those statements, and therefore several potential strategies. No matter what the case, among the vast sea of possibilities, the best constitutional methods will start with the most solid premises of the Constitution: article, section, and text.

There is more to strategy than just reading and repeating the words of the Constitution, but text and structure will always be constant, reoccurring elements. Text and structure will always be the immovable and useful tools of intense American political debate."

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U.S. CONSTITUTION, Political Conmen, America's Subcultures, and Education

From The American Test United States Constitution/The Exact Quotes Test Introduction:

"Competing American Subcultures, Sophists, and Shifting Rule Sets

Most groups want their sacred doctrines or manifestos to dominate America in government, business, and cultural norms. The Christians want their New Testament to prevail as supreme law; the Muslims want their Quran; the far left might want The Communist Manifesto; the Hindus may want their Vedas to dominate national conduct; the Jews, maybe their Old Testament; and there are several other groups that promote special doctrines as well.
Group/subcultural competition is partially, but not completely, to blame for shifting national rule sets that breed distrust in American society. Combined with the lack of constitutional education, sophists have increased animosity and distrust in America by excessively fueling and preying on group competition.
When new favoritism towards a religious, ethnic, or economic ideology is expressed by a politician, members of the newly favored group might believe they are gaining power while other groups lose power. Often, however, the proclaimed favoritism towards a group is a theatrical act of half-truths for financial or political gain, a gain for oligarchs at the expense of citizens. When a once-favored group can no longer function for political or financial gain, the sophists will cease to favor that group, and the sophists will swap out that once-favored group for another group. Sophists switch out favored subcultural groups in order to alter rule sets and social norms, often so they do not have to pay or honor the previously established contracts. After sophists swap out subcultural groups, old for new, there is a shift in national codes of conduct because there are usually special doctrines attached to each incoming and outgoing group; a so-called "new and improved" manifesto or religious scripture comes with the newly favored subculture. When there is a shift in codes of conduct, many people who played fairly according to the rules of yesterday suddenly become the criminals of today, and this has greatly contributed to the lack of faith in 21st century America. When the good people according to yesterday’s proclaimed rules become villains due to the new rules of today, there is a change in wealth and power. However, during this power shift, while many citizens lose, the sophists will keep or gain power. Sophists change favored groups to change declared rules for the very purpose of keeping or gaining power.
When a set of rules is first enforced by sophists, in the beginning stages, near the time when the rules are first declared, those rules are difficult for the masses to adapt to, but, over time, many citizens from the masses learn to adapt; they find strategies to leverage the rules to their advantage. Over time, with evolving techniques, many everyday citizens gain greater wealth and power comparable to the oligarchs. This advancement by the masses threatens the sophist.
The sophist keenly observes the momentum of the masses. Wishing to keep control over society and stop the cultural momentum, once again for another round, the sophist switches to yet another subculture's doctrine of so-called "moral conduct": again, drastically changing social norms, for the support of another wave of unconstitutional legislation, judgment, and enforcement. Controlled mass communication and great oratory skills, while the opposition is silenced, facilitate the executive, judicial, and legislative changes desired by sophists. By randomly shifting and promoting the doctrines of another group (new codes of so-called "ethical" conduct), sophists are able to vilify the citizens who greatly benefited from adapting to the rules of yesterday. After vilification, with another set of unconstitutional rules, and using the pressure of the media, sophists gain enough public and government support to severely tax, fine, imprison, attack, or kill those that were triumphant under the rules of yesterday.
With shifting rule sets, titles of nobility, bills of attainder, and ex post facto laws have been common tools of sophists, from ancient Greece to modern America. Because over 90 percent of Americans (including citizens of private industry, law enforcement, and military members) are unread in their Constitution and, therefore, unfamiliar with terms such as "title of nobility," "ex post facto law," and "bill of attainder," political sophists are able to get away with creating titles of nobility, bills of attainder, and ex post facto laws, at least for operational purposes.
Titles of nobility give additional liberties to one group while denying those liberties to others. Bills of attainder punish people just for being members of a group, often without trial. An ex post facto law is a law that punishes acts that were done legally before the ratification of that law; for instance, if Citizen A did Action A before 2015, at a time when Action A was legal, and then the government declares Action A illegal in 2022 (a later date), but punishes Citizen A for doing Action A during 2015, then that would be an ex post facto law.
Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and granting titles of nobility are illegal according to Article I, Sections 9 and 10 of the Constitution. Sophists in American government, from local to federal, use those anti-constitutional protocols, as well as others, for their gains at the expense of citizens. Sophists can get away with using anti-constitutional legislation and enforcement because most American citizens (voters and members of local, state, and federal governments) have almost zero knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. By the cultural act of American citizens forgetting their Constitution, the stable foundational laws become non-existent when addressing matters of physical and financial reality (lawsuits, taxes, use of police force, incarceration, national defense, et cetera). To deal with matters of immigration, incarceration, war, taxes, trade, and liberty, the cultural failure of not knowing the text and structure of the Constitution creates a condition that is temporarily the same as not having a Constitution at all. Since Americans have forgotten their Constitution, sophists can make up almost any law that they want. For all practical purposes, even sophists that do not hold formal legislative positions can make laws with America’s constitutional amnesia.
A stable legal foundation, the best defense against political conmen, will only exist in the United States when a high percentage of citizens know the real text and structure of their United States Constitution. The legal foundation of the nation will strengthen as the percentage of constitutionally educated citizens grows. Legal stability increases with knowledge of the letter of the law; a reduction in the negative effects of sophistry will correlate with increased knowledge of the true Constitution held by fellow citizens.
The laws of physics take effect whether the human mind knows them or not, but the laws of a society can only take effect if its citizens are sharply aware of those man-made laws. An objective of the American Test is to vastly increase that awareness through the repetitive practice of identifying the true text and structure of the Constitution (article, section, and text)—the opposite of being indoctrinated through the so-called "legal" and "moral" persuasion of sophists. America will vastly improve with constitutional education.

21st Century Compromise: Acceptance Again

When America’s subcultures relearn and re-accept the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law, sophists will have greater difficulty fooling those subcultures about what is and is not constitutional. America’s groups will be more tightly bound . . ."

-- Alexander Higgins, Creator/Author of The American Test

National Unity and the State of Civil Conflict

[From the Introduction of The American Test (aka The Exact Quotes Test)]

"As much as any single book or social science course can do, one goal of the American Test is to create a stronger and more trustworthy bond for American citizens. There has been growing distrust and civil conflict in 21st-century America: citizens against citizens, citizens against their local, state, and federal governments, and governments against citizens. There were several events that caused and resulted from this nationwide anxiety and hostility: the World Trade Center attacks, two wars that lasted 8 and 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan, riots in several cities, calls to defund law enforcement, the COVID-19 pandemic, fierce disputes over presidential elections, lock-downs, vaccine mandates, and all while adding to a national debt of over 28 trillion dollars.

Contributing to the lack of domestic tranquility and complicating matters, the United States consists of 325 million citizens, with those citizens belonging to several different genetic, religious, historic, and political groups. Often, these subcultures of our larger culture (white, black, Asian, Christian, Muslim, anti-theist, capitalist, socialist, and so many others) have different ideologies from one another. At times, cultural differences have contributed to our arts and sciences, no doubt. Like many Americans, I have greatly enjoyed studying east Asian martial arts in my youth and tasting the recipes of Irish, Italian, Greek, and Mexican chefs, among others. On the other hand, caused by differences in world views, the various subcultures have formed different manifestos from one another. Under these various group doctrines, there have been orders for the use of force, carried out in our streets, and orders for government influence, carried out by executive, judicial, and legislative actions, at the local, state, and federal level. Often, these niche doctrines do not have a protocol consistent with the U.S. Constitution. The quotes "No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law" and "No Bill of Attainder... shall be passed" are often not parts of these group manifestos.

Just for starters, living in our nation in this present day, we have populations of Jews and Palestinians from the warring Middle East. Adding more fuel to the fire, we have generational Americans, naturalized citizens, whites, blacks, east Asians, Hispanics, European pagans, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, anti-theists, Scientologists, Veterans, janitors, housewives, feminists, doctors, and too many other classes to list. To emphasize again, resulting from their world views, each group has its own distinct manifesto (or specialized group constitution), and these special group constitutions or special doctrines (such as the Christian Bible, the Quran, The Communist Manifesto, The Old Testament, corporate charters to "create shareholder wealth," Plato’s Republic, and other documents of great influence) are often not philosophically consistent with each other. Therefore, at least partially and greatly due to not consistently using one agreed-upon, shared constitution for inter-group matters between America’s subcultures, more and more often, Americans have failed to peacefully resolve differences, and when differences have yielded non-violent solutions, our military, education system, and industry have lost millions of able-bodied Americans. There needs to be a unifying, agreed-upon, and understood constitution for all groups, all cities, and all states for America to be one nation in productive cooperation and not a nation on the brink of civil war. On the positive side, there already is a constitution, or manifesto, for all Americans of all categories of citizens: the United States Constitution. The United States Constitution has been the supreme law of our nation, ratified in 1787 and enforced since 1789. So that Americans can hold their nation together, they need to read and know their national Constitution well. When Americans of all categories read and keenly know that same U.S. Constitution, they will more often cooperate according to the text of that same U.S. Constitution."

-- Alexander Higgins

THE AMERICAN TEST of THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
(aka The Exact Quotes Test)

[Instead of Common Core, The American Test is like Common Constitution: an education proposal for government institutions, course and exam requirements for police, military, DMV employees, et cetera.]

"What exactly is the United States Constitution American Test?

The American Test United States Constitution is the title of both a course and a multiple-choice exam mainly composed of correct and incorrect quotes from the entirety of the United States Constitution of 1787–1791 (the Preamble, Main Body, and Bill of Rights). Also, there is additional material in the course: writing exercises that cover all articles, sections, and amendments.

Technically speaking, what will the American Test do for Americans?

When implemented, the American Test is a uniform, simple, and transparent method that will yield the following benefits for everyday American citizens:
1. The ability to identify what is truly stated and not stated in their U.S. Constitution,
2. The ability to cite the location of statements in that Constitution by article and section
3. The ability to communicate in a more uniform and rapid manner about what is and is not stated in the Constitution with fellow citizens and government officials during intense debates on legislation, judgment, and enforcement
4. The ability for the American public to objectively evaluate the basic constitutional education held at government institutions (such as the military, tax offices, DMVs, police departments, schools, and post offices) by means of recorded and reported American Test exam scores
At the very least, Americans will learn the true text and structure of the United States Constitution and have an objective method for evaluating that knowledge—a solid, respectable legal basis to empower everyday Americans.

The Course Book

The American Test course is composed of 115 multiple-choice questions or prompts that require the identification of true quotes from the United States Constitution. In addition, the course book contains a glossary of constitutional terms, terms that might be unfamiliar to many citizens when first reading the Constitution. The glossary will help with reading comprehension of the Constitution. To complement the 115 multiple-choice quote exercises and to increase comprehension even further, there is a writing exercise in which a course participant describes each article, section, and amendment with as few or as many words as they see fit. The entire course book is less than 100 pages. Regarding price, the American Test course books are a fraction of the cost of most social science text books used in high schools and colleges while yielding a fundamental constitutional education in a more effective manner. The American Test book provides education that is central and needed in 21st century America with superior speed, objectivity, and affordability.

The Exam

For the purpose of time management at various institutions, the American Test examinations will be composed of four different 29-question versions: Exam Versions A, B, C, and D. The sum of all exam version questions (from A, B, C, and D) will be approximately equal to and the same as the questions from this 115-question course book (only the answers will be rearranged). A person being examined could get Test A, B, C, or D, so they should read the entire Preamble, Main Body, and Bill of Rights for preparation.

Uniformity

The format of the American Test will be the same throughout all states, cities, and institutions in America. The only difference will be in the required scores for official certification at different institutions. Military and law enforcement officers will have to score higher for their American Test certification, higher than a high school student wishing to earn a diploma: same exact course, same exam versions, but different score requirements for different institutions.

What are the proposed exam score requirements for members of the different institutions?

- To achieve a high school diploma or GED, 60 percent, with special recognition given to those that score above 90 percent
- To enlist in the United States Military, 70 percent
- To graduate from a public college, 80 percent
- To become a U.S. Military Officer, 80 percent
- To become a local, state, or federal law enforcement officer, 80 percent
- To become a government employee, 70 percent
If a person wishes to become a certified member of two or more of the mentioned institutions, they will have to pass the test at least twice. This is done to reinforce the importance of constitutional accountability, the government’s promise to the American people."

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Did the 14th Amendment make the Bill of Rights a restriction on individual state governments and not just a restriction on the federal government?

Senator Jacob Howard co-authored Amendment 14 with Senator John Bingham. These are Howard's words on the subject:

"Such is the character of the privileges and immunities spoken of in the section of the fourth article of the Constitution. To these privileges and immunities, whatever they may be—for they are not and cannot be fully defined in their entire extent and precise nature—to these should be added the personal rights guaranteed and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as the freedom of speech and of the press; the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances; a right appertaining to each and all of the people; the right to keep and to bear arms . . ."

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