kind of crazy a country is not allowed to count its citizens, no? IMO the count should be citizens (for voting/districts/representation purposes) AND non-cits (for infrastructure, etc.- can't starve the gateway cities bc of high % non-cit pop)
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Gosh maybe we could concede that non citizens are people too but worth counting since,.like, they are not going to vote and stuff.
By Hemptons logic, an airport would be a "retrograde" for counting international visitors, a statistics that determines forecast of future services. The Constitution point here is a strawman. Barbarian Cap's point is totally reasonable.