What scares me most about gutting the 14th is that there would need to be some new criteria for citizenship to replace it. And I can't think of anything that could possibly be enforced equally and without bias.
Should people have to take a test? Who then controls who administers it and how it is graded? Who gets access to taking it and who controls that?
Should there have to be a tax or a fee? This is tantamount to taxation without representation. We fought for our own sovereign rights over that one.
Should one be certified clear of disease or disorder? Do I even need to go into the reasons that one is scary to consider?
The 14th Amendment is worded the way it is to ensure fairness. Plain and simple. Messing with that just because a few people (relatively speaking) are gaming the system is a very bad idea.
Even though I think it's overkill, I can kinda see the reasoning behind the no-booze-on-election-days thing. I mean, I can see why one wouldn't want the massively inebriated voting on city ordinances and choosing our elected officials. We could end up with a write-in campaign for "Leroooooooyyyyy Jenkiiiiiinnnnnsss!!!!111one!!"
Word on the student org experience! That was literally the only thing that got Geek.Kon.07 off the ground. We knew bupkis about running a con (as evidenced by the fact that we threw the thing together in six months... do as Trae says, not as we do), but student org experience we had in spades. Out of a staff of about twelve that year, I'm pretty sure we had six people who were either heads or former heads of UW-Madison student organizations.
