I refer us to the thoughts of James Wilson from the Constitutional Convention who states that all elections are equal when a given number of citizens from one part of the State have the same weight as the votes of citizens in another part of the State. and my sense is that. when they went to drafting the Constitution. it was the idea of the drafters to have this census to take into account. hopefully. a growing population and a shifting population so that. when we apportion seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years. the House. which is the peoples House. would truly reflect where the people were situated. where the citizens. those Members of our political community. are situated. And they did that. There was no discussion back in those days with the framers of the Constitution and when they passed the 14th amendment of undocumented aliens because the concept was unknown to them at the time. Remember that in a new. fledgling country the doors were wide open inviting. encouraging. beckoning people to our shores. and in a sense we see that today. We have several million undocumented aliens in this country today. We know that. The figures vary. but we know that during the immigration bill the figures were anywhere from 1 million to 4 or 5 million. We know they are here. We know their political plight.
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