Both the original language in Article 1, Section 2 and the 14th Amendment tie the census directly to representation in the US House of Representatives. This is important to understanding the purpose of asking about citizenship on the census.

Inquiring about citizenship on the census goes back to at least 1800 and Thomas Jefferson. The founder, author of the Declaration of Independence and president-to-be wanted the census to ask about the "respective numbers of native citizens, citizens of foreign birth, and of aliens ... for the purpose of more exactly distinguishing the increase of population by birth and immigration." In 1820 the census began asking the questions President Jefferson wanted answered...

Citizenship has been routinely asked in the census in one way or another. Up to the 1950 census, citizenship was asked either directly or as a follow up of all respondents. Citizenship was removed from the short questionnaire in 1960 but was included on the longer questionnaire that went to a subset of census respondents starting in 1970 —until 2010. President Obama dropped the long form altogether in 2010, thereby dropping the citizenship question... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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