By design the census counts population not citizens. The citizenship question will not be used to determine who gets counted.
By design the US Constitution apportions congressional representation by population.
The only recourse is to change the constitution.
Wrong.
So it depends on the definition of the word “population”. Interesting.
So it depends on the definition of the word “population”. Interesting.
By design the US Constitution apportions congressional representation by population.
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“permanent” population.. not transient... people illegally in any state are not by definition permanent... if you count them then Florida with 100MM visitors a year when you combine MIA/TPA/MCO/SFB international airport traffic and assuming a 2 week visit has a “permanent” transient population averaging 2-3MM at any one time ... GIVE ME THE EXTRA REPS IN CONGRESS... (just going by the rules!)
“By design the US Constitution apportions congressional representation by population.”
By design the US Constitution originally apportioned congressional representation by population.
But Amendment XIV changed apportionment from population (with slaves being discounted by 40%) to resident citizens of each state:
“Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside...
“Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.”
If the authors of Amendment XIV wanted to retain the original population basis, but end the discounting of blacks, they could have had Section 2 as Section 1 and Section 1 as Section 2.