The Senseless Census: A Solution By Jon N. Hall May 26, 2010 The original purpose of the census was apportionment -- the drawing of congressional districts so that each would contain roughly the same number of Americans. To do this, the census must count heads and get their addresses. This has not been a mystery since the advent of computers. Computers are used in statistical sampling. Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at UW-Madison, made an impassioned plea for using sampling in the census on May 1 in The Washington Post . It was titled: “The census will be wrong. We could fix it.” But in Department of Commerce v. United States House of Representatives (1999), the Supreme Court ruled against the use of sampling in the census. Justice O’Connor delivered the Court’s opinion : “The District Court below examined the plain text and legislative history of the [Census] Act and concluded that the proposed use of statistical sampling to determine population for ...
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Counting Foreigners in the U.S. Census By Jon N. Hall June 11, 2010 The federal government is currently conducting its decennial exercise: the census. Some may think the Constitution requires the feds to conduct the census in a certain manner. But there are only two iterations of the word “census” in the entire Constitution. One is in the 16th Amendment , which makes the census irrelevant to the income tax. And the other is in Article I, Section 9. 4 : “No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.” The enumeration (or “Census”) referred to is found in Article I, Section 2. 3 : “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 .” [Emphasis added.] As far as the original Constitution treats the census, that’s it. Notice there’s...
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