Re: The Census So President Trump intends to re-work the census numbers to eliminate illegal aliens from counting for representation in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. Democrats are screeching that this in unconstitutional. Whenever I hear that, my first step is to go and see exactly what it is the Constitution says, and here it is, from Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct." I'm not going to debate the constitutionality of Trump's proposal in this post. Instead, I wanted to highlight something that caught my eye; this part: ". . . three fifths of all other Persons." That refers to the infamous "Three Fifths Compromise." The Southern states wanted slaves to fully count in the census for representation purposes, and the free states did not want them to count at all. So as a compromise, slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person. This gave more representation to slave states than they would have had if slaves had not been counted. When the Constitution was approved we did not have political parties as we understand them today. However, those slave states were the backbone of the Democrat Party that was founded in 1828. My point? In 1788 (when the Constitution was adopted) the proto-Democrats of the day wanted to count their powerless black slaves for purposes of political representation and power. In 2025 Democrats want to count their powerless, indentured servant, illegal alien, sub-minimum wage Latino gardeners, maids and nannies for purposes of political representation and power. Nothing ever changes, least of all the deep evil that has always resided at the heart of the Democrat Party.