The U.S. Constitution mandates that the entire U.S. population be counted every 10 years. The census count is the cornerstone of the U.S. electoral system, assuring that the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are equally distributed among the states according to their population.
Based on the census count, Congressional seats are reapportioned and every state legislature is redistricted to ensure each district has an equal number of persons. Billions of dollars are distributed annually based on the population count. Before the Civil War, slaves were only counted as 3/5 of a person. The 13th Amendment banned slave
Based on the census count, Congressional seats are reapportioned and every state legislature is redistricted to ensure each district has an equal number of persons. Billions of dollars are distributed annually based on the population count. Before the Civil War, slaves were only counted as 3/5 of a person. The 13th Amendment banned slavery and the 14th Amendment requires that every human being be counted in the census as a full person.
The last Census Day was April 1, 2020. Every "person" who was living in the United States on that date, that is, every human being who was an inhabitant, was supposed to be included in the 2020 Census count. That includes every man, woman and child of all races, ages, and national heritage. Immigrants, here legally or illegally. were coun
The last Census Day was April 1, 2020. Every "person" who was living in the United States on that date, that is, every human being who was an inhabitant, was supposed to be included in the 2020 Census count. That includes every man, woman and child of all races, ages, and national heritage. Immigrants, here legally or illegally. were counted, since they are inhabitants. Tourists, since they are not inhabitants, were not counted.
Good question! A child born prematurely at seven months is counted, since it has been born. But a baby still in the womb at nine months is not counted, even though it is older, bigger, maybe healthier, and just as much a "person" as the prematurely born child. True, some babies may die in the womb before they are born at nine months, but many adults in hospice are expected to die within six months, but they still get counted if they were alive on Census Day!. Why the contradictory discrepancies between counting the young and the old?
In his 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote that, among other reasons, since, to his knowledge, unborn children had not been included in previous census counts, the Constitution does not consider them to be "persons."
However, corporations are not human beings, and are not counted in the census, yet they are nevertheless considered to be Constitutional "persons.." Even more to the point, Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in 2023!
The world famous geneticist, Dr. Jerome Lejeune, wrote of the one-celled human zygote, "He is a being, and being human, he is a human being." Thus, since the Census Bureau considers every human being to be a "person," unborn human beings are "persons." Unborn babies should be counted!
In God’s eyes, every individual human being, born or unborn, counts. The census form simply asks for the name, sex, age and birth date of each "person" living at a certain address. An ultrasound done during pregnancy can reveal whether an unborn child is a boy or girl. A child can be named before it is born. The child's address should be the same as its mother's address. Since the census goes on for many months, the date of birth, if needed, could be added later. Since the U.S. Constitution requires every "person" to be included in the census count, there is no logical or practical reason why unborn children are unconstitutionally discriminated against by being excluded from the census count. Tell the Census Bureau - Unborn Babies Count!