Exclude Undocumented Residents from Census Counts Used for Apportionment: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 3639, H.R. 3814, and H.R. 4234 ... June 23, 1988U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - Broj stranica: 99 |
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14th Amendment 1990 census count apportioned apportionment base apportionment counts apportionment purposes bill Census and Population Census Bureau Chairman citizenship committee CONGRESS CONGRESS CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY congressional districts congressional reapportionment Congressional Research Service congressional seats Constitution count illegal aliens counting the whole DeBruin dilution Don Edwards DYMALLY enumeration equal numbers Equal Protection Clause equal representation exclude undocumented residents excluding Indians Fourteenth Amendment framers Hal Daub Hispanic community House of Representatives immigration laws include illegal aliens inclusion of illegal Indians not taxed inhabitants issue large numbers legal residents legislation LIBRARY LIBRARY LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MALDEF number of citizens number of persons number of voters numbers of illegal Pennsylvania Plyler political question representation for equal REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS respective numbers Ridge slaves statement Subcommittee on Census Supreme Court Thank tion undocumented aliens undocumented immigrants United vote Wesberry whole number word person
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Stranica 87 - While it may not be possible to draw congressional districts with mathematical precision, that is no excuse for ignoring our Constitution's plain objective of making equal representation for equal numbers of people the fundamental goal for the House of Representatives.
Stranica 82 - We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis.
Stranica 54 - April, which shall be known as the census date. (b) The tabulation of total population by States as required for the apportionment of Representatives shall be completed within eight months of the census date and reported by the Secretary to the President of the United States.
Stranica 22 - While under our Constitution and form of government the great mass of local matters is controlled by local authorities, the United States, in their relation to foreign countries and their subjects or citizens are one nation, invested with powers which belong to independent nations, the exercise of which can be invoked for the maintenance of its absolute independence and security throughout its entire territory.
Stranica 48 - The debates at the Convention make at least one fact abundantly clear: that when the delegates agreed that the House should represent "people" they intended that in allocating Congressmen the number assigned to each State should be determined solely by the number of the State's inhabitants.30 The Constitution embodied Edmund Randolph's proposal for a periodic census to ensure "fair representation of the people...
Stranica 20 - To preserve its independence, and give security against foreign aggression and encroachment, is the highest duty of every nation, and to attain these ends nearly all other considerations are to be subordinated.
Stranica 80 - by the People of the several States" means that as nearly as is practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's.
Stranica 19 - He becomes a member of the society, possessing all the rights of a native citizen, and standing, in the view of the constitution, on the footing of a native. The constitution does not authorize congress to enlarge or abridge those rights. The simple power of the national legislature is to prescribe a uniform rule of naturalization, and the exercise of this power exhausts it, so far as respects the individual.
Stranica 47 - That every person whose usual place of abode shall be In any family on the aforesaid first Monday in August next, shall be returned as of such family...
Stranica 73 - The qualifications on which the right of suffrage depend are not, perhaps, the same in any two States. In some of the States the difference is very material. In every State, a certain proportion of inhabitants are deprived of this right by the constitution of the State, who will be included in the census by which the federal Constitution apportions the representatives.