{"id":41512,"date":"2014-03-24T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T20:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/speaking-of-intrusive-census-questions.html"},"modified":"2014-03-25T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:16:48","slug":"speaking-of-intrusive-census-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/speaking-of-intrusive-census-questions.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of intrusive census questions"},"content":{"rendered":"
I recall there being all sorts of foofoorah last census about all those horrible questions that were Horribly Infringing on Freedom as Given To Us By The Founding Fathers but Now Lost Amidst The Creeping Socialism of the Freedom Hating Obamanation.<\/p>\n

I was poking through some census records, and noted the 1850 census (which would have included in it some folks who were kids when the Constitution was enacted) included such Freedom Loving and Not At All Intrusive questions as:<\/p>\n

– Married within the last year
– Attended school within the year
– Persons over 20 years of age who cannot read and write
– Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper, or convict<\/p>\n

Too bad Michelle Bachmann wasn't alive then so she could have seen what Truly\u00a0Constitutional Censuses were like back in the day.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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I recall there being all sorts of foofoorah last census about all those horrible questions that were Horribly Infringing on Freedom as Given To Us By The Founding Fathers but Now Lost Amidst The Creeping Socialism of the Freedom Hating Obamanation. 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