This subject, with its ramifications, is rarely considered as a single issue or question.
By looking at it this way, under the heading of 'Appointing a Representative for you' which you have been lead into and allowing to occur---and yes, actually fooled into making out 'an applications for'---by various deviously scamming groups, agencies, teachers, society, or a representative, will perhaps help all of us to better understand one of the greater 'ills' mankind has developed and then been confronted by.
Once you have appointed a [Congressional, etc] REPRESENTATIVE, that person has your Power-of-Attorney and can do anything in your name and even vote to take your guns away or tax you to pay for all the communists and/or UN NWO.