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> Didn't see how the Census clause authorized the collection of personal and private information they were demanding I turn over accurately under criminal penal
by crooked-v 7y ago
> Didn't see how the Census clause authorized the collection of personal and private information they were demanding I turn over accurately under criminal penalty otherwise.
It's a law, not part of the Constitution.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/13/221 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/13/221
(Section 3571 and Section 3559 amend the penalty from $100 to $5000.)
> demanding I turn over accurately
Note the "to the best of his knowledge" in the law above.
- wl 7y agoI think the point was that the law, as applied to the ACS, does not fall under enumerated powers of the federal government, nor could it be reasonably seen to fall under the necessary and proper clause. The census? Sure. But not the ACS. As someone who was sent the ACS and started to fill it out before abandoning it because the government has no business demanding answers to some of those questions, I felt violated. Then the Census Bureau harassed me. And then nothing came of it. Shame on them.