Do you believe in a representational government or not?
i believe in mixed government of the founders federalist 40, ....not the stupidity of democracy
"The Constitution contains a mandate for a census.
One of its stated objectives is to enable the proper apportionment of representation, state by state, in the House of Representatives. From the start, however, apportionment has been a mangled affair, a stain on our claim to be a true and fair representative democracy...."
Census nonsense - Los Angeles Times
the census does not count citizens, it counts people, anybody.
you stated rural states, were counting people as citizens who were illegal..they are becuase thats what the constitution says to do.
by the way we are not a democracy, you will not find that word in our founding documents, or the constitution of any state.
we are a federal republic, with republican form of government ,not a democratic form....article 4 section 4
The Constitution does not state...slaves...either. But is there any doubt in anyones mind who the "3/5 persons" were? After the Civil War and the slaves were freed, the southern states counted them as whole persons while still denying them the right to vote and representation. What is so different from that and what the states with large illegal immigrant populations are doing now?
actually it does, but not by name, the 13 14 15th amendments to our constitution were written for the
slaves only, as stated by the USSC in the slaughterhouse case of 1873.
however later it has been stated by the court it applies to all citizens.........by stating that the bill of rights now applies to the states.
the amendments removed them from slavery, due process, could not be discriminated by governments, privileges and immunities, and they
could not be denied the vote because they were a slave.
voting under the constitution by the founders was not a right. ..it was a privilege as stated by the founders....the court later called it a right.