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American democracy depends on the census. Trump is undermining it | danah boyd
The very mechanisms that allow the census bureau to resist partisan interference are coming undone. And Congress is silent When the constitutional architects of the United States got together, they came up with a crazy plan: “What if we count everyone in the country and allocate political representation that way?” It was a radical act. Until then, censuses had been used by kings to levy taxes and conscript men into war. With the penning of article 1, section 2 of the US constitution, being coun…
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