Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy recently suggested that American high school students should pass the same civics exam required of immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship. The entrepreneur and "America First" Republican candidate shared this proposition on Twitter, including sample questions from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website.

Ramaswamy argued that the mere suggestion of this requirement being controversial reflects poorly on the state of the nation's civic understanding. The provided sample questions covered fundamental aspects of American governance, such as the supreme law of the land (the U.S. Constitution), the amendment process, the number of U.S. Senators, and their term lengths.

The standard naturalization process involves a USCIS officer asking 10 civics questions from a pool of 100, with applicants needing to answer at least six correctly. Ramaswamy's proposal sparked considerable discussion online. Political science professor Nicholas Giordano concurred, citing his own experience with students struggling to pass similar exams, even mistaking the U.S. Constitution for the Russian Constitution.

Conservative journalist Ryan James Girdusky suggested raising the bar for the immigration test itself. Conversely, HuffPost correspondent S.V. Dáte used the opportunity to criticize former President Donald Trump's potential performance on such a test. Dr. Molly James, a medical freedom activist, expressed support for Ramaswamy's idea.