How does one say "One man, one vote" in Spanish?
I must admit I was unaware of the influence of illegals and legal non-citizens in the apportionment of representatives.
So Oklahoma lost our Congressional seat because they count illegals? I am for this change 100%! That is absolutely disgusting and am passing on to my State Rep and Senator not mention by Congressman and two Senators.
Counting illegal aliens in the Census is like counting an unknown passerby as part of your immediate family.
Making the illegal invasion of the USA a felony
would allow citizen arrests....and force leos to do their jobs
or suffer arrests themselves
imo
Making the illegal invasion of the USA a felony
would allow citizen arrests....and force leos to do their jobs
or suffer arrests themselves
imo
I propose amending the Constitution as written "persons born in the United States and Subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside." to read "persons born of legal resident parent(s) or of legal visitors in the United States and Subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside."
Since, legally, only US citizens are allowed to vote, I'm all for it!
It might help to know what 'person' actually means.
I think in the old days, before there was "naturalization" all the people were citizens, except for the slaves and indians which if present in the district were presumed NOT to participate in the body politic.
I don't know the history of naturalization rules, like when they were established. I expect it was a crazy quilt dependent on the state, the time and the ethnicity.
I hope Rep. Miller is successful in her effort.
I'm sure that Congress can come up with a workable compromise on the issue, like counting illegals and non-citizens as, oh, I don't know, three-fifths?
The analysis--and conclusion may be correct--but as a Founding Father, aren't you ignoring the fact that we are (or were) citizens of the respective States and not (or were not) citizens of the United States? The use of "persons" allow[s,ed] US to be represented.
Seems like a no brainer to me, but then, so do many things that our government chooses to ignore.
Yeah, but if we're going for true proportional representation, why not first eliminate the most egregious disproportionately representative government body in the country--the US Senate? Plus it'd stop those bastard Democrats from obstructing Bush's nominees and the spineless RINO's from being Byrd and Reid's prison bitches.
Here's a ping for those who have yet to hear about Congresswoman Candice Miller's (R-Mich) proposal. The discussions to date surrounding the 14th Amendment have centered on the anchor-baby issue.
The way that Amendment is used by bean-counters, however, is much more insidious.
Un hombre-un voto
Every time I think I've heard all the bad news there is on this issue, I learn that there is way more than I thought.