Re: your Kennedy-Clinton Amendment - Using one person's achievement of office at the federal level to prevent someone else's achievement at the state or local level seems (a) massively unfair to younger siblings, and (b) to be undue federal meddling in other levels of government. Even at the federal level, withholding legitimate election to office to people at more than one level of remove - grandchildren, in-laws, nieces and nephews - seems ridiculously punitive. (Appointive office, maybe.)
I'm pretty much against any test for office that involves an accident of birth, so perhaps I'm unduly biased here, but - you're an only, right? My youngest sibling is 12 years younger than me. It would be entirely possible for me to have gotten elected to a term in the House of Representatives before she was old enough to even vote. She is way, way better at the sorts of social-intelligence things that make one a good local politician. It strikes me as deeply unfair for my potential achievements to curtail hers, especially when she would probably be even better at it.
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Date: 2011-12-03 10:09 pm (UTC)I'm pretty much against any test for office that involves an accident of birth, so perhaps I'm unduly biased here, but - you're an only, right? My youngest sibling is 12 years younger than me. It would be entirely possible for me to have gotten elected to a term in the House of Representatives before she was old enough to even vote. She is way, way better at the sorts of social-intelligence things that make one a good local politician. It strikes me as deeply unfair for my potential achievements to curtail hers, especially when she would probably be even better at it.