Persuant to Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, the only information the census is permitted to obtain is the number of people living in your house. Period!

“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Number…  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.”

The Supreme Court supports this!

“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [insert Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen.” Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190.

The Constitution does not grant the Federal Government the authority to make general inquiries into the private affairs of citizens under the umbrella of the census or a survey.

“The Fourth and Fifth Amendments were described in Boyd v. United States, 116 U.S. 616, 630, as protection against all governmental invasions…of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life. We recently referred [381 U.S. 479, 485] in Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 656, to the Fourth Amendment as creating a…right to privacy, no less important than any other right carefully and particularly reserved to the people.” GRISWOLD v. CONNECTICUT, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)

The Census Bureau relies on Title 13 of the U.S. Code  justify its authority for collecting personal data on Americans and Title 18 to punish those who do not comply.

Are both Title 13 and Title 18 of the U.S. Code UNCONSTITUTIONAL?

Several Supreme Court cases would seem to indicate they are. If so, they have no force of law.

“The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be In agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows:

The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it’s enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.

Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it…

A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the lend, it is superseded thereby.

No one Is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.” 16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256

Refuse to comply with their unconstitutional requests!

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