The census language is straightforward and explicitly ties the census to representation in the republic government.
The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, modified the census language and the definition of citizenship to include everyone born within the United States regardless of origin, making freed slaves citizens for the first time.
The founder, author of the Declaration of Independence and president-to-be wanted the census to ask about the "Respective numbers of native citizens, citizens of foreign birth, and of aliens...for the purpose of more exactly distinguishing the increase of population by birth and immigration." In 1820 the census began asking the questions President Jefferson wanted answered.
Citizenship has been routinely asked in the census in one way or another.
The Trump administration wants the census to resume asking every household in the country about citizenship.
The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, a continuous look at the U.S. population, always asks about citizenship.
So why is a nation asking about citizenship on its census, for the purposes of both representation in government and taxation as the Constitution mandates, even controversial? Democrats say that it could lead to undercounting some minority populations.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-census-should-ask-about-citizenship-to-keep-house-representation-of-citizens-fair/
The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, modified the census language and the definition of citizenship to include everyone born within the United States regardless of origin, making freed slaves citizens for the first time.
The founder, author of the Declaration of Independence and president-to-be wanted the census to ask about the "Respective numbers of native citizens, citizens of foreign birth, and of aliens...for the purpose of more exactly distinguishing the increase of population by birth and immigration." In 1820 the census began asking the questions President Jefferson wanted answered.
Citizenship has been routinely asked in the census in one way or another.
The Trump administration wants the census to resume asking every household in the country about citizenship.
The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, a continuous look at the U.S. population, always asks about citizenship.
So why is a nation asking about citizenship on its census, for the purposes of both representation in government and taxation as the Constitution mandates, even controversial? Democrats say that it could lead to undercounting some minority populations.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-census-should-ask-about-citizenship-to-keep-house-representation-of-citizens-fair/
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