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Originally Posted by aceventura3
The credibility of Beck and Rush are central to the discussion as framed in the OP.
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ace...by all means, add your perspective on Beck/Rush and the census.....it would a refreshing change to have you address an issue directly and not go off on an unrelated tangent.
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For the record, in a 2001 Court decision, the Court ruled that both the short form and the long form (American Community Survey) are constitutional.
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In a recent court decision, Morales v. Evans, the court held that the questions and the long form from the 2000 census are constitutional.
In Morales, the court first reviewed both the short form and the long form questions from the 2000 Census and traced the origin of each question from prior censuses. The court noted the authority of the Bureau to collect more than headcount information, and then specifically addressed whether such collection violated the plaintiffs rights under the Fifth Amendment (due process), First Amendment (protection against compelled speech), and Fourth Amendment (unreasonable and illegal search). In each instance the court found the collection of information related to governmental purposes and there was no basis for holding such collection unconstitutional.
U.S. GAO - Legal Authority for American Community Survey, B-289852, April 4, 2002
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But I suspect that makes them "activist judges" in the mind of some....
...despite the fact that in 1790, at the time of the first census, Madison (the "father of the Constitution" before he became president) spoke for many of his colleagues in promoting the census to "embrace some other objects besides the bare enumeration of the inhabitants; it would enable them to adapt the public measures to the particular circumstances of the community."