The American Cursus Honorum

Cursus Honorum, "cursus" meaning course or path and "honorum" meaning the worthiness to hold public and military office, ought to be implemented in the United States today.

Cursus Honorum is a set of prerequisites for holding political office. Prerequisites like age, nativity, residence, criminal record, prior offices, terms and term limits are revised in this op-ed.

Below is an outline of my proposed Cursus Honorum. All office holders ought to be NBC (Natural Born Citizens), a resident of the state they are representing, of a certain respective age, no felony charges, no impeachment convictions, can only run for re-election while holding office - if they wish to run for a different office they must resign or complete their current term - can only be elected upwards the Cursus Honorum - no presidents running for a seat in the house - legislative and executive offices have terms and term limits while all offices have a age limit of 65 for being elected to office, and the Supreme Court has a forced retirement age of 65. All judges must have been a lawyer.