About one-quarter of this year's form asks illegitimate and unconstitutional race and ethnicity questions.
I'm taking a wild guess here, but answering "that's none of your f**king business" might possibly be viewed as unacceptable.
I saw one wit who suggested answering "human" for race, and while this is technically true and correct I still prefer the answer "American" and will probably use that.
- I liked Teddy Roosevelt's opinion that there was no room here for hyphenated-Americans, only Americans so that is what I'll hang my hat upon.
Leaving "blanks" or "unanswered" questions prompts visits from gummint/ACORN census workers so I'm planning on providing answers....just not the ones they expect.
Thursday 11 March 2010
2010 census.............from Rico
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Theo,
I have to disagree. Fill it out fully and properly. Why? because leaving any "wrong" (IE: not on the form) answers will leave Zero the opportunity to just fill in whatever the hell he wants.
Not that he won't try anyway, but I say let's not give the empty suit any openings. I dunno about you but the last thing I want to find out is that my voting district was changed to join with some massively leftist one because my ethnicity or political affiliation was surreptitiously changed to something it isn't because I didn't fill out the form properly.
I'd say extra-constitutional, not unconstitutional.
The State is not required by the constitution to ask them, but I see nothing that forbids them, either.
Article 1, section 2, provides that "The Enumeration shall be made ... in such a Manner as they shall by Law direct."
Given, in fact, that it was originally demanded to count slaves differently, and to exclude "Indians not taxed", it was plainly never the intent that the question be absolutely limited to "how many people are in the household?"
I see no reason to believe the Constitution prohibits the State from asking other questions in order to inform policy decisions.
(I suggest that it might exceed authority to demand answers to racial, economic, and other questions under penalty of law, as those are not obviously an "enumeration"*, but it's not at all clear that that's necessarily so, and it's almost certain that no court will agree.
* Remember that Section 8 says they have power to make all laws "necessary and proper" to fulfill the powers vested in them by the Constitution.
Thus the question becomes "what can Congress decently consider part of "enumeration"?", and it's unclear in the extreme that the Founders would have been particularly upset about the State asking questions beyond "how many people?", so long as they respected the Fourth Amendment, for example, and didn't try to use the Census to catch criminals by demanding they incriminate themselves...)
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