You Sir, belong in missionary work, not politics. I daresay everyone on this site, myself included, agrees with your principles. However, principles without a personality to attract those less well mentally endowed will get you precisely nowhere. Ask Steve Forbes.
Do you also propose an IQ test for voters?
No. Just a constitutional test, and consistent accountability to the principles of our republic, for all leaders and candidates.
We're building a political culture of principle, as opposed to what the GOP has become, a culture of total compromise of principle.
Not a bad idea that. I believe Heinlein put forth that notion in one of his books. (He'd have the voting machine give you a quadratic equation to solve, which would weed out a whole bunch of people)
It would be Constitutional too. The constitution's protections of the right to vote only extend to denials based on race, color,previous condition of servitude, failure to pay a poll tax, or age for those 18 or older.
That said, I'd prefer the requirement be put into a Constitutional Amendment. Safer that way, from several angles.