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Re: Census
I got another one today. That also makes three for me. I expect visits soon.
Re: Census
They can get the information they need to pick up the House seats from the 1 question I'm going to answer.03Lightningrocks wrote:I just saw something on the news I had not realized. It looks like Texas has a chance of picking up 2 or 3 seats in the senate because of the census. Apparently our population is growing.Fill out those things folks. Come out from under your tin foil hats on this one. We need to get all the seats we can to fight the libs on the east and west coast.
Edited to say: The one question I did answer. It's already in the mail.
Re: Census
Thanks pbwalker! I thought about writing in American too, but I figured since the letter I sent ranted on about them only being authorized to ask one question, I'd better only answer one.pbwalker wrote:THIS!!! +10000!
Well said timdsmith! I sent mine back two days ago only answering question 1 and writing in American for the ethnicity. I'm anxiously awaiting a knock on the door.
I reckon I'll be getting a knock on the door too.
Re: Census
Here's my rant on this: Read it if you're really bored. 
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Persuant to Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, the only information the census is permitted to obtain is the number of people living in your house. Period!
“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Number… 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 Supreme Court supports this!
“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [insert Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen.” Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190.
What I'm going to do is answer Question 1. And send this letter in with it.
Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution the only information you are empowered to request is the number of people living in my house. My “name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, relationship and housing tenure” have absolutely nothing to with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore, neither Congress nor the Census Bureau has the constitutional authority to make that information request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3.
I think I'll also cite the following:
“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [insert Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524,―and it cannot be too often repeated,―that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all invasions on the part of government and it’s employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, ‘of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.’” [The bracketed words added for clarification] Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)
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Persuant to Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, the only information the census is permitted to obtain is the number of people living in your house. Period!
“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Number… 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 Supreme Court supports this!
“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [insert Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen.” Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190.
What I'm going to do is answer Question 1. And send this letter in with it.
Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution the only information you are empowered to request is the number of people living in my house. My “name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, relationship and housing tenure” have absolutely nothing to with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore, neither Congress nor the Census Bureau has the constitutional authority to make that information request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3.
I think I'll also cite the following:
“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [insert Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524,―and it cannot be too often repeated,―that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all invasions on the part of government and it’s employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, ‘of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.’” [The bracketed words added for clarification] Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)
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