ok 3/5th how's that?Why should illegals have political representation?
No clue how the court will respond, but it's an easy enough question.
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Trump bid to exclude illegal immigrants from representation
Why? Because that's what the Constitution call for.
The U.S. Constitution empowers the Congress to carry out the census in "such manner as they shall by Law direct" (Article I, Section 2). The Founders of our fledgling nation had a bold and ambitious plan to empower the people over their new government. The plan was to count every person living in the newly created United States of America, and to use that count to determine representation in the Congress.
Census in the Constitution.
A census counter is completely unable to determine who is here legally or not at that. This is just another case where the government tries to blame others for it's failures.
Technically, it calls for the enumeration of "the whole Number of free Persons". At that time of writing there was no immigration law as there was no reason to have any.
Illegal aliens are not "free" but only "free-roaming", no different than a burglar who enters your house.
There is no logic in giving Congressional representation to foreign entities.
People will argue that there were no semi-automatic weapons back then either so banning them is OK.
None of it is OK. Besides, they are not foreign entities. They are people here processing our food. Caring for our children. Taking care of our lawns,
Your attempted flip to another issue is noted.
If they are not citizens, they are foreign entities. To say otherwise is the height of willful ignorance.
They are here. They are staying. They should be counted just like the Constitution requires.