US House proposes New Voting Amendment

[Se7en]

The United States House of Representatives has proposed a new
constitutional amendment. Debate has yet to start. The text in-full is
the following:

>                           JOINT RESOLUTION


 
>     Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
>                       regarding the right to vote.

>     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
> States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
> concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
> amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
> valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
> ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
> after the date of its submission for ratification:

>                               ``Article--

>     ``Section 1. Every citizen of the United States, who is of legal 
> voting age, shall have the fundamental right to vote in any public 
> election held in the jurisdiction in which the citizen resides.
>     ``Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce and implement 
> this article by appropriate legislation.''.

The source for this is at
<https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-116hjres93ih>. The
immediate problem that becomes apparent is that this legalizes felons
to vote again, and further relies heavily on the ever-changing
definition of "citizen", which is already questionable under the 14th
Amendment (should you believe the Legalese Religion's interpretation
of it). 

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