Is there no end to the bastardization of the 14th
Amendment? This post-civil war measure
was designed to protect ex-slaves and their progeny while at the same time
disenfranchised southerners who participated in the rebellion. That was it.
Now it’s a vehicle for activist judges who seek to impose their social
justice policies upon the country while at the same time conferring more power
to the central government. This is not
how are federalist system is supposed to work.
The 14th Amendment has wrought upon this
country another unintentional consequence.
Illegal aliens and residential non-citizens are being counted in the
census. This distorts our congressional
districts and ultimately the Electoral College.
The Politico reported the following:
The distribution of
these 435 seats is not static: they are reapportioned every ten years to
reflect the population changes found in the census. That reallocation math is
based on the relative “whole number of persons in each state,” as the
formulation in the 14th Amendment has it. When this language
was inserted into the U.S. Constitution, the concept of an “illegal immigrant,”
as the term is defined today, had no meaning. Thus the census counts illegal
immigrants and other noncitizens equally with citizens. Since the census is
used to determine the number of House seats apportioned to each state, those
states with large populations of illegal immigrants and other noncitizens gain
extra seats in the House at the expense of states with fewer such “whole number
of persons.”
This math gives strongly
Democratic states an unfair edge in the Electoral College. Using citizen-only
population statistics, American University scholar Leonard Steinhorn projects
California would lose five House seats and therefore five electoral votes. New
York and Washington would lose one seat, and thus one electoral vote apiece.
These three states, which have voted overwhelming for Democrats over the latest
six presidential elections, would lose seven electoral votes altogether. The
GOP’s path to victory, by contrast, depends on states that would lose a mere
three electoral votes in total. Republican stronghold Texas would lose two
House seats and therefore two electoral votes. Florida, which Republicans must
win to reclaim the presidency, loses one seat and thus one electoral vote.
Americans have to ask
themselves, how can a man like Luis Gutierrez openly advocate for open borders
and the interest of illegal aliens over his fellow countrymen and still get
elected? Better yet, how can the electorate vote for a president who obviously
doesn’t have the country’s best interest at heart? Can anyone say, Barack Hussein Obama?
If Americans truly want
a president and their representatives to look after their best interest and
ultimately the country’s best interest, we must repeal the 14th
Amendment.
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