Census Haters: Should the results of the census be restricted to its original intent?

Article 1, Section 2 - The House



The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.



No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.



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, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative;



and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five and Georgia three.



When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.



The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.Census Haters: Should the results of the census be restricted to its original intent?
The only info the federal government is truly authorized to ask on the census is how many people live in any particular home. Period.



Anything else is an infringement on privacy and gives any unscrupulous power in authority (regardless of party) information that may be used against us at their convenience.



So, yes. Limit the census to information that the government requires in order to determine representation.Census Haters: Should the results of the census be restricted to its original intent?
That has been revised to count all persons no matter what their age equally. Now that part I have no problems with. If we went back to the original wording one Representative for every 30,000. Do you have any idea how many Representatives there would be in the house? There are roughly 285 MILLION legal US Citizens in the US.



HOWEVER, I do wish they would stick to just counting heads to determine the allocation of Representatives. And leave it to that.



But since you mentioned Representatives. How about having the districts drawn up by computers instead of the Gerrymandering that's done today.