The problem of course being that intelligence tests were used in the 60's to deny voting rights. But the founding fathers were okay with slavery, so would they have been okay with that for that purpose?

Originalism has a purpose I think, but, we've changed so much since then...

All the writings of the Founding Fathers are free and publicly available. You can learn all about it.

You don’t get smarter reading a few 140 characters tweets.

https://www.crf-usa.org/images/t2t/pdf/HowShouldWeJudgeOurNa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_slavery

The founding fathers certainly did assume there were gullible voters even among the select few who could vote.

Protections such as the Constitution itself (that old archaic document!), the Senate, supermajorities, an independent legislative, executive and judicial, etc, etc.

I laugh when people say “Congress is deadlocked! It needs to be fixed!”. No, it’s working exactly as intended.

Are you talking about his "failed Civics 101" gaffe re: historical ordering of Constitution and Revolution?

I have been convinced for a long time that a test of basic civics and current events is a necessary (and possibly a sufficient) condition to fix most of the failings we see in representative democracy, but the Overton window is nowhere near it, and Ramaswamy is hardly the candidate I'd want proposing it.

The whole question and answer bank could even be given out online or in print cosr free - my bar is pretty low.

Currently I would suggest that most of the failings in, e.g., US democracy are coming from the Republican party and I'm pretty sure most of them will have passed a test of basic civics, etc., yet are demonstrably bad at governance.