What you refer to as “fad” I refer to as “the body of Constitutional decisions.” I would very much prefer that the Federal government be reduced to minimal size and necessary function; we disagree on the means and the optimum size.
The body of the Leviathan. Stare decisis is not good law in and of itself. The “self-evident” moral principles of the Natural Law declared as our Nation’s foundational legal theory must be paramount in every decision. If a decision supposedly according to some long chain of stare decisis does not reconcile to basic morals, then it is the chain of stare decisis which is broken.
Such intrusive questions are immoral. They are immodest.
The Fugio Cent
The Continental Dollar Coin
Be a real American.
Do not support the immodest and deeply un-American intrusive modern census questions.