Census Letter
Tue, March 9, 2010 at 9:59 BOY HOWDY! THE LETTER FINALLY ARRIVED!
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And it is also in Spanish! What about German? What about Chinese? Vietnamese? Korean? Italian? Greek? France? Why is it in Engrich and Spanich?
Just to let all of you know, I will only answer one question: How many people live here. Any other data they require can be reached at the unconstitutional IRS.
Scott from Power Line: We're an American Man
In Letter III of his Letters From an America Farmer (1782), J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur famously asked: "What then is the American, this new man?" He answered: "He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He has become an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of man, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims."
Mark from NRO: Sending a Message with the Census
John: I haven't gotten my letter from the Census Bureau yet asking me to make sure I fill out the questionnaire. But when I do fill it out, I'll use it to send a message.
Fully one-quarter of the space on this year's form is taken up with questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and none of the government's business (despite the New York Times' assurances to the contrary on today's editorial page). So until we succeed in building the needed wall of separation between race and state, I have a proposal. [...]
[...] Instead, we should answer Question 9 by checking the last option — "Some other race" — and writing in "American." It's a truthful answer but at the same time is a way for ordinary citizens to express their rejection of unconstitutional racial classification schemes. In fact, "American" was the plurality ancestry selection for respondents to the 2000 census in four states and several hundred counties.
So remember: Question 9 — "Some other race" — "American". Pass it on. [...]
The letter says "resident". Resident? Are they sending the Census form to residents or will they send the Census to an actual person? How can they determine if I am constitutionally filling the form ... oh ... wait. It isn't about the USC. I get it now. It is all about redistricting and to see how many illegal rug rats are in the country.
Keep in mind that when Congress makes a Law clearly unconstitutional there is no requirement to follow such a Law. The Law made by Congress which is in fact unconstitutional is an unconstitutional Law and the Constitution defines such Laws by Congress to be in accordance with the Constitution. The Congress cannot, legally, constitutionally, make Laws that clearly tell the Constitution what to do. If questions need to be made clear, AMEND the Constitution to make the questions asked on a Constitutional Document, like the Census, Constitutional. Period. End of story.
Questions beyond a simple count are Constitutional
It is constitutional to include questions in the decennial census beyond those concerning a simple count of the number of people because, on numerous occasions, the courts have said the Constitution gives Congress the authority to collect statistics in the census. As early as 1870, the Supreme Court characterized as unquestionable the power of Congress to require both an enumeration and the collection of statistics in the census. The Legal Tender Cases, Tex.1870; 12 Wall., U.S., 457, 536, 20 L.Ed. 287. In 1901, a District Court said the Constitution's census clause (Art. 1, Sec. 2, Clause 3) is not limited to a headcount of the population and "does not prohibit the gathering of other statistics, if 'necessary and proper,' for the intelligent exercise of other powers enumerated in the constitution, and in such case there could be no objection to acquiring this information through the same machinery by which the population is enumerated." United States v. Moriarity, 106 F. 886, 891 (S.D.N.Y.1901).
In 2000, another District Court agreed and found that it there is no constitutional limit on collecting additional data, when necessary for governance. That court also said responses to census questions are not a violation of a citizen's right to privacy or speech. Morales v. Daley, 116 F. Supp. 2d 801, 809 and 816. (S.D. Tex. 2000). These decisions are consistent with the Supreme Court's recent description of the census as the "linchpin of the federal statistical system ... collecting data on the characteristics of individuals, households, and housing units throughout the country." Dept. of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives, 525 U.S. 316, 341 (1999).
Horseshit. Article 1 Section 2 of the United States Constitution.
[...] Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three. [...]
Got it figured out yet? For all of you that think lawyers and judges TELL US what the USC says, bite me and get a clue. The USC tells US what to do and not the other way around. Get over your lawyer and judgisms. They make me sick.
It is TIME to stand for the USC and tell the lawyers and judges to shut the fuck up.
I will provide the Constitutional requirements and that is "How many people live here?" I will write down in the other questions Article 1 Section 2 of the USC.
I got a letter from the census today -
The Snooper Report.
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Sic vis pacem para bellum
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Reader Comments (4)
I already posted how I'm answering the census. http://rocojdm.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/the-constitutional-way-to-answer-the-census/
Answered your post.
The main body of the letter I got (here in Maryland) is only in English. However, below "Robert M. Groves Director, Census Bureau" there's this message in six languages:
Go to 2010census.gov for help completing your 2010 census form when it arrives.
It's in English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean (I think it's Korean, anyway), Vietnamese and Russian. That last one makes sense, because Barry's parents met in a Russian language class.
I'd like to ask, Dlaczego nie po polsku? (Why not in Polish?)
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