{"id":2582,"date":"2009-08-10T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T18:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2009-08-10T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T18:28:46","slug":"wsj-our-unconstitutional-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/wsj-our-unconstitutional-census\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Our Unconstitutional Census"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Baker and Elliott Stonecipher have a must read Op Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal… In short the 2010 Census is set to count all persons physically in the country, including millions of illegal aliens, resulting in states like California that have high illegal alien populations to unconstitutionally increasing their representation in congress while other states that have lower illegal alien populations are denied their rightful political representation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Next year\u2019s census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons physically present in the country\u2014including large numbers who are here illegally. The result will unconstitutionally increase the number of representatives in some states and deprive some other states of their rightful political representation. Citizens of \u201closer\u201d states should be outraged. Yet few are even aware of what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

In 1790, the first Census Act provided that the enumeration of that year would count \u201cinhabitants\u201d and \u201cdistinguish\u201d various subgroups by age, sex, status as free persons, etc. Inhabitant was a term with a well-defined meaning that encompassed, as the Oxford English Dictionary expressed it, one who \u201cis a bona fide member of a State, subject to all the requisitions of its laws, and entitled to all the privileges which they confer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus early census questionnaires generally asked a question that got at the issue of citizenship or permanent resident status, e.g., \u201cwhat state or foreign country were you born in?\u201d or whether an individual who said he was foreign-born was naturalized. Over the years, however, Congress and the Census Bureau have added inquiries that have little or nothing to do with census\u2019s constitutional purpose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lets not mice words here… The Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress will willingly turn a bind eye to the Constitution for simple reason counting illegal aliens helps the Democrat Party. It allows them to add House seats in states like California where their political machine already dominates while disenfranchising Republican districts in other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Baker and Elliott Stonecipher have a must read Op Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal… In short the 2010 Census is set to count all persons physically in the country, including millions of illegal aliens, resulting in states like California that have high illegal alien populations to unconstitutionally increasing their representation in congress while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[656],"class_list":{"0":"post-2582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-census","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-FE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2131,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/first-nevada-now-pennsylvania-7-acorn-workers-facing-voter-form-charges\/","url_meta":{"origin":2582,"position":0},"title":"First Nevada, Now Pennsylvania: 7 ACORN Workers Facing Voter-form Charges","author":"Jeff","date":"May 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just days after Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Secretary of State Ross Miller announced that voter registration fraud charges had been filed against ACORN and two of it's employees in that state comes news that 7 ACORN works are being charged voter registration fraud in Pennsylvania: PITTSBURGH (AP)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1483,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/breaking-news-senator-judd-gregg-withdraws-nomination-for-commerce-secretary\/","url_meta":{"origin":2582,"position":1},"title":"Breaking News: Senator Judd Gregg Withdraws Nomination for Commerce Secretary","author":"Jeff","date":"February 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Still Looking for details, but I'm hearing reports that\u00a0 Sen. 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