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No. Most of the states in the US have a lower level of government called counties. Delaware has 3 counties and Texas has 254. Rhode Island, Connecticut, parts of Massachusetts have kept the county districts, but have removed their governmental function.Louisiana does not have any counties. They have an equivalent called Parishes - and there are 64 of them.Alaska does not have either. Alaska has boroughs and census areas.There are some states such as Missouri and Virginia which allow certain cities to remove themselves from the county and form independent cities.These counties, parishes, and independent cities provide the central point of reference for vital statistics (birth, death, and marriage certificates), criminal court system, and issuing building permits for the areas not incorporated by a city.

President Andrew Jackson was once a prisoner of war. 14-year old Jackson and his brother Robert were taken prisoner by the British in 1781 while serving as couriers for the militia during the Revolutionary War. When Andrew refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the officer slashed at him with a sword, leaving him with scars on his left hand and head, as well as an intense hatred for the British. Robert also refused to do as commanded and was struck with the sword. The two brothers were held as prisoners, contracted smallpox, and nearly starved to death in captivity. Later that year, their mother Elizabeth secured the brothers' release. She then began to walk both boys back to their home in the Waxhaws (border of North and South Carolina), a distance of some 40 miles (64 km). Both were in very poor health. Robert, who was far worse, rode on the only horse that they had, while Andrew walked behind them. In the final two hours of the journey, a torrential downpour began which worsened the effects of the smallpox. Within two days of arriving back home, Robert was dead and Andrew in mortal danger. After nursing Andrew back to health, Elizabeth volunteered to nurse American POWs on board two British ships in Charleston harbor, where there had been an outbreak of cholera. In November of that year, she died from the disease and was buried in an unmarked grave, leaving Andrew an orphan at age 14. He blamed the British personally for the loss of his brothers and mother (another brother died during a battle), and would exact a measure of revenge as a General in the War of 1812. Edited: Though George Washington surrendered to the French after the Battle of Fort Necessity in 1754 during the French and Indian War, he was technically not a POW as he was never taken into custody. He sent an officer to the French-Canadians under the surrender flag, and the officer returned with the conditions of surrender, which Washington signed. He and his men were allowed to withdraw without being taken prisoner (which coincidentally occurred on July 4).Aaron Burr continued to carry out his duties as Vice President even though he was a fugitive, wanted for murder in New Jersey and New York. The charges, for killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804, were eventually dropped due to technicalities in the laws of the time (Hamilton was shot in New Jersey but died in New York). After his VP term (1801–1805) was over, Burr become involved is what is known as the Burr Conspiracy, a scheme to create an independent country in the center of North America including the Southwestern United States and parts of Mexico. President Thomas Jefferson, under whom Burr had served as VP, ordered his arrest for treason. Burr was acquitted by the Supreme Court due to lack of evidence. He immediately went to Europe in a self-imposed exile, but was eventually expelled from England and rebuffed by Napoleon as he attempted to solicit support for an invasion of Mexico. Burr returned to the U.S. under an alias to avoid his creditors, and eventually returned to New York to practice law in relative peace.General James Wilkerson, who served in the American Revolution and War of 1812, was twice Commanding General of the U.S. Army (1796-1798, 1800-1812), was the first governor of the Louisiana Territory (1805-1807), and was the U.S. Envoy to Mexico during the Mexican War of Independence from Spain (1816-1825), was discovered after his death to have been a spy for the Spanish crown since 1787. He was Burr’s primary contact during the Burr Conspiracy, but was erroneously exonerated by court-martial in 1811.The U.S. was effectively a one-party country for nearly a quarter century. The Democratic-Republican Party controlled the Presidency, both houses of Congress, and most states from 1801 to 1825. The party fractured from within and split into factions in the controversial election of 1824, with supporters of Andrew Jackson forming the Democrat Party and supporters of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay eventually forming the Whig Party.Vice President William R. King is the only U.S. executive official to take the oath of office on foreign soil. He was elected on the 1852 ticket with Franklin Pierce. By the time of the inauguration, he was in Cuba receiving treatment for tuberculosis. Congress passed a Special Act to allow him to be sworn in. He died a month later in 1853 at his Alabama home, the shortest-serving Vice President.The aforementioned VP King and future President James Buchanan were rumored to be lovers. The two men lived together for 13 years from 1840 until King's death in 1853; Buchanan served as President from 1857–1861. Buchanan referred to the relationship as a "communion" and the two often attended official functions together. Contemporaries also noted and commented upon their unusual closeness. Andrew Jackson mockingly called them "Miss Nancy" and "Aunt Fancy" (the former being a 19th-century euphemism for an effeminate man) while Aaron V. Brown, King’s political rival, referred to King as Buchanan's "better half". Buchanan, from Pennsylvania, adopted King's mannerisms and romanticized view of Southern culture. Both men were described as soft, effeminate, and eccentric. They spent some time apart while King was on overseas missions in France in 1844 as U.S. Minister to France, during which time Buchanan wrote to Cornelia Roosevelt, "I am now 'solitary and alone,' having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone, and [I] should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection." Neither of the men married or had children, and Buchanan is the only bachelor President in U.S. history.John Tyler is the only former President to participate in a rebellion against the U.S. when he joined the Confederacy during the Civil War. Tyler served as president from 1841-1845. In February 1861, while the first 7 seceding states met in Alabama to form the Confederacy, he presided over BOTH the Virginia Peace Conference (i.e. to avoid war) and the Virginia Secession Conference (i.e. to withdraw from the Union) on the SAME DAY, thinking that a clean separation of all Southern states would not result in war. When the Peace Conference voted for peace, Tyler voted AGAINST it, and when the Secession Convention voted to stay with the Union, he voted for SECESSION. After the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861 started the war, Tyler voted with the new majority for secession. He headed a committee that negotiated the terms for Virginia's entry into the Confederacy and helped set the pay rate for Confederate military officers. In June 1861, Tyler signed the Virginia Ordinance of Secession, and one week later the convention unanimously elected him to the Provisional Confederate Congress, where he began serving in August 1861. In November 1861, he was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives, but he died in his hotel room in January 1862, shortly before the first session could open. He is the only U.S. President whose death was not officially recognized by the U.S. government. At his funeral, the coffin of the 10th president of the United States was draped with a Confederate flag, and he remains the only U.S. President ever laid to rest under a non-U.S. flag.John Breckenridge is the only former Vice President to participate in a rebellion against the U.S. when he joined the Confederacy during the Civil War. He served as VP from 1857-1861 under President James Buchanan and was the youngest ever VP at age 37. He unsuccessfully ran against Abraham Lincoln in the Election of the 1860 but was elected Senator from Kentucky in the same election. While still serving in the U.S. Senate, Breckenridge joined the Confederate Army in November 1861. A U.S. federal district court indicted him for treason, and the U.S. Senate passed a resolution declaring him a traitor. Breckenridge led Confederate troops in a dozen major battles as a Major General, and served as Confederate Secretary of War in 1865. As the Confederacy collapsed, he was in charge of saving the Confederacy's gold reserve. After depositing the gold in banks in Georgia, Breckenridge escaped to Cuba, then to Britain, and then to Canada during the summer of 1865. Between 1866 and 1868, he traveled to Germany, Austria, Turkey, Greece, Syria, Egypt, the Holy Land, and Italy, where he met the Pope. After President Andrew Johnson pardoned all former Confederates, Breckenridge returned to Kentucky in 1869 and chose not to re-enter politics, dying of lingering war injuries in 1875.Three states loyal to the Union during the Civil War - New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky - initially voted to reject the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery after the war was over.Martin Luther King Jr.’s legal name at birth was Michael King. Questions remain over the names of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and his father: what names they were given by their parents, what names appeared on their birth records, and when (if ever) they changed their names. His father told a New York Post reporter in 1957: “I had been known as Michael Luther King or “Mike” up until I was 22 … when one day my father, James Albert King, told me: ‘You aren’t named Mike or Michael either. Your name is Martin Luther King. Your mother just called you Mike for short.’ I was elated to know that I had really been named for the great leader of the Protestant Reformation, but there was no way of knowing if papa had made a mistake after all. Neither of my parents could read or write and they kept no record of Negro births in our backwoods county … I gladly accepted Martin Luther King as my real name and when [my son] M.L. was born, I proudly named him Martin Luther King, Jr. But it was not until 1934 [when MLK Jr. was 5 years old], when I was seeking my first passport … that I found out that Dr. Johnson, who delivered M.L., had listed him in the city records as Michael Luther King, Jr., because he thought that was my real name.” The senior King claims that he had his son’s birth certificate altered to read “Martin Luther King, Jr.”, though no records documenting a formal name change for either King has been found.

How about when you and others like you who advocate for these same things, agree to all these same requirements on the right to vote?This is a simple thought experiment I encourage people who advocate for gun control to perform; apply the same restriction, as it would be implemented for guns by the political ideologues asking for the restriction, to the exercise of a right you actually care about.Case in point:Before you can vote, you will be required to attend a government-approved training course and pass a test covering a curriculum set by people hand-picked by the politicians who wanted this, for whom there are two acceptable outcomes; you vote for their party, or you don’t vote at all. If your answers sound even suspiciously like the rhetoric of the opposing party, you fail. In the practical qualification, if you take too long, don’t accurately check the correct box, or demonstrate any behavior that would make you unsuitable to vote, the instructor proctoring the qualification will dismiss you from the test facility and you will not be able to vote.Before you cast your ballot, you have to fill out a form with your name, address, place and date of birth, height, weight, hair and eye color, and Social Security Number, and then attest that you are in the United States legally and long-term (citizen or permanent resident), voting for yourself and not in someone else’s name, not convicted of any felony (except for a few financial regulatory crimes), not convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, not currently under information or indictment on any felony or misdemeanor domestic violence charge, not a fugitive from justice (warrant outstanding for any offense, even failure to appear on a traffic ticket), not subject to a court order restraining you from harrassing, stalking or threatening an intimate partner, your child, or a child of your intimate partner, not an unlawful user of narcotic drugs (marijuana is illegal under Federal law; if you consume marijuana or any derivative of same without Federal permission to do so, you cannot vote even if it’s legal in your state), not dishonorably discharged from the military, and not adjudicated as a mental defective, nor ever committed involuntarily to a mental institution (court-ordered inpatient alcohol/drug rehab counts).You must then hand this form, which is identity theft on a silver platter, to the volunteer running the polling place, who will input this information into a Federal system designed to say that you’re lying on at least one of these affirmations. If you are, and you knew or reasonably should have known it was a lie, you go to Federal prison for 5 years, and having been convicted of a “voting crime”, you will never get your voting rights back; Federal judges are prohibited by a budgetary act from considering your petition, and no President will ever pardon some random guy for such a heinous voting-related crime.You mentioned “tiers” of licensing; so the rules get stricter as the scope of your vote broadens. The “usual” vetting might allow you to vote for city and/or county representation; a stricter set of requirements are imposed for voting in State Legislature elections, stricter still for statewide office and for Federal Congress, and you better embody the Bureau of Voting and Free Speech’s ideals for a member of the electorate to vote for the President.Before you can vote, you have to provide 3 letters of recommendation from residents of the same voting district, whom you have known personally for at least 7 years, attesting that you are a fine, upstanding citizen with strong cultural ties to your community, who is highly unlikely to misuse your vote contrary to the community’s best interests. If you move, the 7-year clock starts over.Before you vote, you have to pay a $200 registration fee to the Bureau of Voting and Free Speech, and submit a detailed form regarding the circumstances of your registration to vote in a particular scope of election. The paperwork can take up to 9 months to complete. If you take your voter registration card across state lines, even to visit, you owe the BVF another $200, and God help you if you didn’t tell them about the move 10 months in advance.Any transfer of knowledge from one voter to another that could be material in making an election-day decision must be reported to the BVF before the transfer occurs, with a similar form required as to register to vote. This same reporting requirement applies to any material assistance given to a voter, including transportation to or from a polling place, aid in filling out paperwork or payment of fees, etc.And finally, before you can vote, you must register your intention to vote for a certain candidate with the polling place, in person, and must then wait 10 days before you can come back and cast your vote, to give you a cooling-off period during which time you will hopefully refrain from such a rash action.Consider all these points very carefully; each of them has a direct analog to a gun law and/or implementation of same in the Federal system or that of at least one State. Now, ask yourself the following 3 questions:How effective will this program be at preventing people for whom there is some broad supermajority consensus that they shouldn’t vote from doing so?By “broad supermajority consensus”, I’m talking about 85% or better of US citizens and legal residents who agree a person in the target demographic should not vote.How likely is this program to discourage those who could and would otherwise vote legally and responsibly from doing so?Bear in mind that the US political party more in favor of gun control also tends to have the larger problem with voter turnout among demographics that favor their party.How willing are you, personally, to put up with the required processes of this program in order to cast your own vote?A corollary; after going through all this, would you still feel that voting in US elections is a “right” that you can exercise without anyone else’s prior permission, or has it become a “privilege” extended to you by the government at its discretion?I can hear the counterarguments:“Voting is nowhere near as dangerous as owning a gun” - I beg to differ, and anyone who has paid attention to the last, oh, 20 years of US national politics would likely agree. As is commonly said, often to mock one’s opponents, “elections have consequences”. Further, whose who are scholars at virtually any level of expertise in 20th Century world history would say that voting your emotions in a time of turmoil and discontent with the status quo and the world order was the leading cause of untimely death in that century. No single citizen’s vote puts an incompetent or outright dangerous man in power, but the power of a very simple and direct sentiment, “f*** you”, isn’t just tolerated in voting, it is the essence of US national elections.“Some of these restrictions aren’t all that bad” - Maybe not for you. For the black voters in Louisiana that were given this literacy test, because they could not provide documented proof of a fifth grade education, the registrar might as well have said, “No, of course you can’t vote, what are you thinking, showing up with that color skin? Get out and don’t come back”.So it is with guns, in jurisdictions where many of your proposals are already law. If you’re not seen as the “right sort” by the permitting authority, no amount of paperwork will change that impression. The only type of paper that will make a difference is printed mostly in black on one side, green on the other. And if you doubt that, consider that both the left-leaning New York Times and the right-leaning New York Post say as much about firearms permitting in New York City.“Voting is the foundation of a democracy, of course it’s absolute” - I agree. And so is ensuring the government rules by consent of the governed, by in turn assuring that the government does not hold a monopoly on the legal use of deadly force. When government officials know that people not only take free and fair elections seriously, but have alternate means to ensure they are (which has happened, in living memory of some of our older residents), they’re going to bend over backwards to make them pass any test we can devise to define “free and fair” in an election.The advice stands; apply the restriction, in as close a form as you can, to a right you yourself freely and consciously exercise on a regular basis, and ask yourself if you would tolerate said restriction. If you can honestly envision a functioning democracy in which some fundamental right of the people other than gun ownership is subject to your restriction, complete with the “potential for evil” in the implementation of the restriction by the very last person you’d want to have running your government, then maybe we can talk.If, however, you find one or more of these restrictions unreasonably difficult to lawfully work through, self-serving to those in power, easily abused for personal gain in or out of politics, or just plain offensive or distasteful to your conscience - or all of the above - then you have begun to understand the reaction gun owners have to proposals for yet another set of restrictions on their lawful ownership of a piece of property and a tool for personal protection as well as for sustenance and recreation.