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Amazing that foreigners are represented in our government, but as long as the Census doesn’t ask...


15 posted on 12/21/2010 10:21:31 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
Amazing that foreigners are represented in our government, but as long as the Census doesn’t ask...

The Constitution explicitly says that "representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State..." (14th Amendment, section 2). Nothing in there about only counting citizens. The very next sentence talks about "citizens of the United States" being eligible to vote for Congress, so they knew the difference between "citizens" and "persons" and clearly intended to have non-citizens counted for reapportionment even though they can't vote.

33 posted on 12/21/2010 10:33:46 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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