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Ok door bell rang this guy asks me if i have time to answer questions, i said no. He is coming back sunday.How can i tell this guy to go pound sand,politely? What questions do i have an obligation to answer?

Thanks!

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Yeah.

What questions are they constitutionally allowed to ask?

I seem to remember a thread here where someone spelled it out, but I can't seem to locate it.

I'm not one to bow down to laws that don't exist & I figure if they have appropriated X number of funds to follow up on those who haven't completed it, we better make them spend it, otherwise who knows what they may spend it on.

 

Maybe I'm just justifying because I'm a lazy fucker.

 

Nevermind, I found it. It was easy.

 

http://libertarianviewpoint.com/blog/?p=1599

 

Census – What Can You Do?

 

 

JimK is right. You can do things to say what you stand for. If you want to really get their goat send them a copy of this letter. Simply change the relevant information to match your own name etc.

 

To Whom it May Concern,

 

Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, the only information you are empowered to request is the total number of occupants at this address. My “name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, telephone number, relationship and housing tenure” have absolutely nothing to do with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore, neither Congress nor the Census Bureau have the constitutional authority to make that information request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3. In addition, I cannot be subject to a fine for basing my conduct on the Constitution because that document trumps laws passed by Congress.

 

Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)

“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [such as the Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524,―and it cannot be too often repeated,―that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all invasions on the part of government and it’s employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, ‘of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.’”

 

Note: This United States Supreme Court case has never been overturned.

 

Respectfully,

 

A Citizen of the United States of America

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