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That's not what is in the Constitution, which is supposed represent ALL people.
Evenwel v. Abbott was about apportionment based on registered voters, so it violates your stand on representation of children/felons.
Texas, like AZ, has a long history of attempting to deny the vote of minority citizens....further, CA has a much larger foriegn national population than Texas. But again, this case still goes against your stand on all citizens being represented, districts being apportioned by citizen population.
Further still, foreign nationals are still protected by the Constitution, ergo, even they have representative interests
This isn't about race; its about one of the most fundamental rights we have in this country. This proposition boiled down to taxation without representation.
Why should illegal aliens be represented? According to the constitution those that commit a crime do not have to be counted.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,15 and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. affects 2
The above part was modified to include females and those 18 years of age by amendments 19 and 26 respectively, but that was all that was changed.
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Illegal aliens most definitely have committed a crime by coming here illegally. They deserve NO representation what so ever.