[lasereye]

The Constitution does not explicitly address this. I doubt they could persuade all five of the conservatives to affirm the executive order.

[Beagle8U]

“The Constitution does not explicitly address this.”

Do you think we should count everyone in Mexico? World travelers? Foreign students?

No, we should only count legal residents.

[lepton]

The Constitution does not explicitly address this.

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It doesn’t quite, but it is pretty solid on the implicit side.

[trebb]

Shouldn’t be a problem to declare two buckets of numbers - actual citizens and “undocumented” (illegal) invaders - and maybe a 3rd bucket for valid visitors.

[sergeantdave]

“The Constitution does not explicitly address this.”

How liberals think:

When the Founders signed the Constitution, they all agreed that we should count three-quarters of the world in the US census. The Constitution may not say that, but the Founders would think that if they were alive today.