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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Whats up goldenrivet? have you found that your position makes no sense with the comprehension that your worrying "modern developments" in relation to the census deviating from the constitution actually go all the way back to the first census carried out by the people who wrote the constitution.
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sigh...
Sorry, i have a life which requires my presence elsewhere quite frequently
As it was recommended to me - i am simply trying to stop "feeding the troll"
My argument is a simple one, it does not have anything to do with the way the census was done 10 years ago or 100 years ago or even the very first census etc.
I dont care if there were 10,000 questions on the 287 page census 200 years ago... i dont.
the fact of the matter is as follows:
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Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years
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The sole purpose of the census, in accordance with the above direct quote from the United States Constitution is that representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned based on the enumeration of person every ten years.
this census, as those before it, comes every ten years. If the census has two questions on it... that is ONE QUESTION TOO MANY if you go by the strictest letter of interpretation of the above quotation.
all of that aside...
my argument is - I have exercised my
right as a citizen to answer the only ONE required question on the form versus answering all ten.
thats it. That sir, represents the bulk of my point.
the way you whip this dead horse to a blood soaked unrecognizable mass... you would think i broke the law... or performed some wickedly evil deed which deeply affected
you on a personal, financial or professional level
I really dont understand your strong personal desire to convince me that it was "wrong" or "immoral" or "dastardly" in some way for me elect not to not provide the other 9 answers on my own free will.
it might not have been the "right thing to do"
in your eyes... or the eyes
platapus... or even
in the eyes of Mr. mookie or any number of other people...
but it was the right thing to do from my viewpoint.
In the end, you sir must learn to live by the saying "to each his own"
the decision to fill out the census in the manner which i selected was MY decision alone to make - a choice belonging to none other than me.
I shouldn't be chastised...
least of all by you... for that decision.