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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
..and yet somehow you can't point out where exactly I am wrong.
On the census which I took in 2000: "List the race of the people in your household...."
Does this affect apportionment? Nope.
Does this affect direct taxes? Nope.
All you've got is "but, but, they did it in 1820, so it must be okay."...even though you don't know WHY they did it in 1820 and if it upheld those two constitutional requirements.
There is nothing to interpret here. I am sorry it doesn't say what you want it to say so that you can justify your liberal/statist vision for America. Wait, no I'm not.
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The same old Libertarian argument...."there is nothing to interpret here...blah blah blah"....you know every thought and every intent on the mind of every Framer in that room in Philadelphia 200+ years ago.
Read the original
report (pdf) on the act that President Madison (one of the principal framers) signed into law to collect
data on the "arts and manufactures" (pdf) as part of the 1810 census....it was not to affect apportionment...it was not expressly to affect direct taxes....it was to expand the knowledge base for the betterment of the country.
But you know better than Madison.
You guys are more informed than judges on the federal bench, who if they disagree with you, are (in the words of dk) "manipulating the judiciary."
I'm done......enjoy your noble quest to protect the Constitution for the rest of us.
MixedMedia said it best:
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I can't help but giggle that anyone would think they are accomplishing anything by boycotting the census. What a bunch of self-important nonsense.
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And you wonder why some (most Americans) dont take Libertarians very seriously.