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To: Cementjungle; Toad of Toad Hall; meadsjn; be-baw; DouglasKC
Let's assume that tomorrow 20 million people from Mexico flood into California.  This would make the population of California approximately 60 million, out of 350 million in total.  This would mean under apportionment they would have 75 seats, approximately, if that argument holds out of 435.

Ok, what if 200 million people were to flood into California over a 10 year period?  None of them are citizens and yet now one state, under that "read" of the Constitution as amended, results in it having forty-five percent of the entire House, or one hundred and ninety-six seats.

The entirety of the rest of the nation no longer has any representation at all; the entirety of the United States House is now beholden to and both can and will pass laws on the predicate and demand of non-citizens.

This outcome is patently absurd as to "interpret" the Amendment this way means we no longer have a nation that is bounded by the Constitution and its representative process in any form.  In other words this "interpretation" is an effective repeal of the entirety of the Constitution, not only as originally written but as amended.

That's absurd and thus cannot be the intent of the language in the 14th Amendment. - Karl Denninger

90 posted on 07/12/2019 3:13:50 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We chose Trump.)
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To: kiryandil

Excellent post. Thanks for including me on the ping list.


93 posted on 07/12/2019 3:17:11 AM PDT by be-baw
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