The census violates the right to privacy and not constitutionally authorized
Most people are so accustomed to doing a census, they never question its constitutional validity. After all, the word census does appear in The Constitution.
Their reasoning?
Get this. It must be authorized because they've been doing it so long.
Stop The Census — The Constitution for the United States of America authorizes an Enumeration — not a census.
Yes; the US Constitution uses both words, census and enumeration.
We do two things here: One, define each term (census and enumeration) as to what they meant in 1785. Then: Determine which one, if not both, that the Constitution actually grants to Congress to use.
Census, does not appear in the 1785 or the 1756 dictionaries. Still looking for older definition. But, since it did not appear in either the 1756 or the 1785, here it is from 1898: 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estates, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; — usually made once in five years. 2. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
Their reasoning?
Get this. It must be authorized because they've been doing it so long.
Stop The Census — The Constitution for the United States of America authorizes an Enumeration — not a census.
Yes; the US Constitution uses both words, census and enumeration.
We do two things here: One, define each term (census and enumeration) as to what they meant in 1785. Then: Determine which one, if not both, that the Constitution actually grants to Congress to use.
Census, does not appear in the 1785 or the 1756 dictionaries. Still looking for older definition. But, since it did not appear in either the 1756 or the 1785, here it is from 1898: 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estates, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; — usually made once in five years. 2. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
(1710) Censor. a Magistrate, whose Office it was to take an exact view of the People of Rome, to value the Estate of every Citizen, and to reform manners.
(1768) CENSOR. s. 1. An officer of Rome, who had the power of correcting manners. 2. One who is given to censure.
(1818) CRENSUS. n.s. A declaration, among the Romans, made by th4e several subjects of the empire, of their names and -places of abode, before the sensors ; by whom the declarations were recorded.
(1898) Census n. 1. A numbering of the people, and the valuation of their estates, for the purpose of imposing taxes, tec. ; -- usually made once in five years.
2. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country. ---> A general census of the United States was first taken in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten years since. Vertical Divider
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(1756) To ENUMERATE. To reckon up singly ; to count over distinctly.
ENUMERATION. The act of numbering or counting over. 
(1785) TO ENUMERATE. To reckon up singly ; to count over distinctly.
ENUMERATION. The act of numbering or counting over ; number told out. NOTE: Regarding the Wage-Tax and the Income-Tax; both require using the census or the enumeration to determine how much to tax each class of financial-citizen based on how many are low-, middle-, and high-incomes, which presently and unconstitutionally includes wages. Thus the single flat percentage-rate income-tax on true income is the only way government can tax incomes.
Now. When it come4s to different types of income (business profits, rentals from real estate, or produce from a farm, etc.) Congress can tax one type of income at a different rate than other types of income. But cannot tax the people within the same type income different percentages based on volume/dollar amount. |
The word census appears in The Constitution for the United States of America in the following location: Article 1, Section 9, Clause 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 word census does not appear in The Bill of Rights. The word census appears in Amendment 16: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
The word enumeration, in addition to appearing in the above locations with the word census, also appears in the following location: Twice in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3..: "[Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.] 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. . . and until such enumeration shall be made. . ."
No place in the US Constitution does it grant to Congress the power to conduct a census — only an enumeration. It also expressly defines the scope and purpose for that enumeration. The power to count the numbers of the people. Not the power to invade their private lives with a general census as the after-the-fact definitions appear to authorize and support..
Based on the evidence, no more census will be taken. Only an enumeration of the people for the purposes of determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives of Congress. This will simply amount to collecting the number of the total body of registered voters in each state; because it is the registered voters who select the representative as detailed elsewhere.
This goes to show that we must also be cautious about how our new after-the-fact dictionaries alter the way we look at our world and government powers. Dictionaries are not supposed to change the meaning of The Declaration, The Constitution, laws or contracts.
The word census does not appear in The Bill of Rights. The word census appears in Amendment 16: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
The word enumeration, in addition to appearing in the above locations with the word census, also appears in the following location: Twice in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3..: "[Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.] 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. . . and until such enumeration shall be made. . ."
No place in the US Constitution does it grant to Congress the power to conduct a census — only an enumeration. It also expressly defines the scope and purpose for that enumeration. The power to count the numbers of the people. Not the power to invade their private lives with a general census as the after-the-fact definitions appear to authorize and support..
Based on the evidence, no more census will be taken. Only an enumeration of the people for the purposes of determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives of Congress. This will simply amount to collecting the number of the total body of registered voters in each state; because it is the registered voters who select the representative as detailed elsewhere.
This goes to show that we must also be cautious about how our new after-the-fact dictionaries alter the way we look at our world and government powers. Dictionaries are not supposed to change the meaning of The Declaration, The Constitution, laws or contracts.