C.3(b). Retaining Civic Powers

To maintain Civic powers, every Citizen must:

1. Serve on local and federal juries when summoned;

2. Serve on federal boards, authorities, and commissions when selected, as provided for in this Charter;

3. Serve as an election worker when randomly selected (no more than once every eight years).

This is where all of this stops being theory, and reality steps in. These are the things you have to do to maintain your civic powers. It isn’t an overwhelming list. The costs of service are real, but they aren’t designed or expected to be oppressive. If you are able but unwilling to meet these requirements, why should you retain your civic powers? I don’t think there is a defensible answer to that question.

Willful, repeated failure constitutes the Failure to Fulfill a Civic Duty as outlined in Article IV, subject to lawful penalties and suspension of Civic powers until duties are restored.

This subparagraph could almost be dropped from the Charter, but it is here to drive home the point of exactly what constitutes Failure to Fulfill a Civic Duty. The fact that the civic offense exists has already been established and explained. This is just the emphatic period at the end of the sentence.