{"id":3447,"date":"2009-11-05T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2009-11-05T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:33:58","slug":"the-end-of-american-representative-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/the-end-of-american-representative-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of American Representative Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Senate blocks census US-citizenship question. So much for our American Representative Democracy system. What a travesty!<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091105\/ap_on_go_co\/us_congress_counting_immigrants_1\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a> | Nov. 5, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year&#8217;s census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen. The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding immigrants from the population totals that are used to figure the number of congressional representatives for each state. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Critics said Vitter&#8217;s plan would discourage immigrants from responding to the census and would be hugely expensive. They also said that it&#8217;s long been settled law that the apportionment of congressional seats is determined by the number of people living in each state, regardless of whether they are citizens. A separate survey already collects the data.<\/p>\n<p>The plan fell after a 60-39 procedural vote made it ineligible for attachment to a bill funding the census.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate blocks census US-citizenship question. So much for our American Representative Democracy system. What a travesty! AP | Nov. 5, 2009 Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year&#8217;s census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen. The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding &#8230; <a title=\"The End of American Representative Democracy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/the-end-of-american-representative-democracy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The End of American Representative Democracy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-totalitarian-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}