1980 Census, Counting Illegal Aliens: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Federal Services of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2366 ... March 26, 1980

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163 ページ - So, also, where a law is expressed in plain and unambiguous terms, whether those terms are general or limited, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction.
204 ページ - ... within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States...
19 ページ - by the People of the several States" means that as nearly as is practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's.
127 ページ - Secretary shall in the year 1920 and every 10 years thereafter, take a decennial census of population as of the first day of April of such year, which date shall be known as the "decennial census date", in such form and content as he may determine, including the use of sampling procedures and special surveys.
163 ページ - We are unable to adopt the construct ve interpolations ingeniously offered by counsel for defendant in error. Why not assume that the framers of the constitution and the people who voted it into existence meant exactly what it says? At the first glance, its reading produces no impression of doubt as to the meaning. It seems all sufficiently plain, and in such a case there is a well-settled rule which we must observe.
85 ページ - The phenomenon ue have sought to measure, by its nature, is not an easy one to deal with. Researchers and policymakers will have to live with the fact that the number of illegal residents in the United States cannot be closely quantified.
163 ページ - The object of construction, applied to a constitution, is to give effect to the intent of its framers and of the people in adopting it , This intent is to be found in the instrument itself; and when the text of a constitutional provision is not ambiguous the courts, in giving construction thereto, are not at liberty to search for its meaning beyond the instrument.
137 ページ - The Constitution says that all persons shall be counted. I cannot quarrel with the founding fathers. They said that all should be counted. We count the convicts who are just as dangerous and just as bad as the Communists or as the Nazis, as those aliens here illegally, and I would not come here and have the temerity to say that the convicts shall be excluded, if the founding fathers say they shall be included. The only way we can exclude them would be to pass a constitutional amendment.
19 ページ - We hold that, construed in its historical context, the command of Art. I, § 2, that Representatives be chosen "by the People of the several States...
28 ページ - ... full and effective participation in the political processes of his State's legislative bodies. Most citizens can achieve this participation only as qualified voters through the election of legislators to represent them. Full and effective participation by all citizens in state government requires, therefore, that each citizen have an equally effective voice in the election of members of his state legislature.

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