The Constitution requires the counting of “persons”, not citizens. What is it about the old Confederacy and reading comprehension?
Edit to correct people to persons.
I suppose this is easier than encouraging people to move to Alabama.
Perhaps a compromise is in order: maybe we could count undocumented aliens as 3/5s of a person, or something like that.
I understand there’s some kinda historic precedent for it.
I guess the Brain Trust we call The Welfare State of Alabama doesn’t want the federal funding it would otherwise be entitled to.
Evidently it thinks their only multi-million dollar losses are in the agricultural sector. Perhaps the crackers can try building and repairing its roads with the produce rotting in its fields.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State…
Look what I found in the Constitution!
This site, https://www.runforoffice.org/, allows you to enter your ZIP code and see what offices are available to you and the filing window for that office. They also have a few video short-courses on running a campaign. In my state you file for office during a 1-week period in May.
Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes it’s a Ward officer. Meet your neighbors and get out the vote. Find good citizens willing to run for office.
Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Think a majority of America knows how government works? Just 26% of eligible voters in America voted for Trump, and half of all voters stayed home last November. HALF! Today’s 12-year olds will be voting for President in 6 years. Make sure they’re prepared.
Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly. And get on your Planning Commission.
Run for State Legislature or Congress. The next census is in 2020 when we’ll redraw Congressional Districts. Make them fair and open. Trump is ALREADY trying to rig the census- talk about ‘voter fraud’!
Register people to vote. If you need to help people overcome the GOP-led voter-run-around campaign help them do that. This site, https://www.aauw.org/resource/organize-a-voter-registration-drive/, has a how-to on organizing a voter registration drive. Or even sitting outside Wal Mart with a folding chair and a card table. Yes, that’s the American Association of University Women. And while we’re here organize a League of Women Voters chapter in your community if you don’t already have one. Fair, honest and above board. Democracy functions better with them involved.
Civics, civility and civilization all share the same roots.
“Are you goin’, to Alabama…”
Nope.
That’s rich of Alabama and all of the south, which used slave counts in the Census (which the northern states opposed) to slant the country toward slavery and set up the Civil War. The result was the 3/5ths compromise, wherein “free” persons counted as one, but slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person for representation and electoral vote counts.
The Constitution says to call ALL persons, showing that for Conservative – who supposedly claim the Constitution as their own versus Progressives – don’t care a whit about what it says if that doesn’t suit them.
Do they not realize that a higher count could provide them with more representation in Congress, and larger transfers of certain federal monies?
First of all…Mo Brooks again. Just a jerk.
And second of all, is it their main complaint is that they will lose a seat because some other state may have more “illegals” than they do?
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 2 (1868):
“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.”
Readin’ is hard!
You missed the part about only counting “legal 'Muricans”; it’s written in invisible ink.
I really don’t think any of this was thought up by someone in AL, including Mo Brooks (nor his brother, Curly.) I think this was the brainchild,as was the tsunami, the 900 or so scandals involving president trump on orders from Charlie Koch, or one of his stooges. This whole “presidency” of trump is just a distraction so the Kochs can get their REAL magnum opus - ruining the country for everyone not filthy rich by bribing/blackmailing enough state legislators to call a constitutional convention and REALLY screw the public. Check out Chas.Koch’s run for VPOTUS in 1980, the platform shows what he wants, and is about to buy, if he can - eliminate SS, unions, public education, and lots more. It’s ugly.
An Amendment that was passed and ratified as a result of the War of Northern Aggression. A war that was started by Abraham Lincoln despite the fact that the Confederacy sought a peaceable accommodation of its legitimate claims to independence. A Confederacy that was forced to defend itself against Lincoln’s coercive policy.
“Most people don’t even know [Lincoln] was a Republican. Right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that. We have to build that up a little more.” - DJT, March 2017
The Party of Lincoln, may it rest in peace. Or pieces.
Liar! The Constitution is a very brief document. It reads, in its entirety: