Title: Constitution Day 2019 re: U.S. Census and Representation Source:
Our Founders, census.gov and YouTube URL Source:https://www.census.gov/programs-sur ... esources/constitution-day.html Published:Dec 8, 2010 Author:U.S. Census Bureau Post Date:2019-09-17 19:51:01 by GreyLmist Keywords:U.S. Constitution, Census, Apportionment, Representatives Views:552 Comments:1
Published on Dec 8, 2010 by the U.S. Census Bureau
Apportionment is the process of dividing the seats in the House of Representatives among the 50 states based on the [legal] population figures collected during the decennial [10 Year] census. The number of seats in the House has grown with the country. Congress sets the number in law and increased the number to 435 in 1913. The Constitution set the number of representatives at 65 from 1787 until the first Census of 1790, when the it was increased to 105 members.
But how does apportionment actually work? Through animation, the U.S. Census Bureau helps explain how the apportionment formula is used to ensure equal representation for all [legal U.S. Citizens], just like the Founding Fathers planned.
Poster Comment:
The Unconstitutional 14th Amendment and the Unconstitutional Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 were mass increases of Post-War Citizen-Taxation levels, primarily for the purposes of paying war debts and "reconstruction" workings after the "Civil War" and WWI. Both violated Article I, Secion 8 of our Constitution's Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause. These legislative actions also circumvented the right of those affected by the decreed Citizenship to decline instead if they preferred to do so. The 14th Amendment even wrongfully obscured the Census instructions of our Founders at Article I, Section 2.
The Census has 2 main purposes which are separate issues: 1. Apportionment for Congressional Representation of the Citizenry and 2. Apportionments for taxation of the Citizenry and legal foreign workers. Our Founders never intended for Representation to be determined by however many of the world's population happen to be: 1. "irregularly"/illegally present here at the time, or 2. legally present visitors of citizen households, or 3. legally present tourists, or 4. whoever is present that happens to have paid any State sales tax while in our country. More info in appended posting(s).
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and laws let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor - let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling-books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke