Commentary

Equal Representation Act, Slavery & the Civil War

H.R.7109 or The Equal Representation Act passed the House on a party line vote. Its objective is simple.

“To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, to require reporting on certain census statistics, and to modify apportionment of Representatives to be based on United States citizens instead of all persons.”

As the Biden administration has deliberately allowed millions of illegal invaders to enter and remain in the United States, the underlying issues are more urgent than ever. And they date back to the debates at the heart of the Civil War.

Pack enough people into a district and those in power can become a majority even if the people themselves can’t vote and have no right to even be here.

This was one of the political issues involving slavery and the party of slavery used illegal aliens to create large numbers of ‘ghost districts’ especially in the West. The power of the Democrats is in large part based on urban political machines many of which are populated by people who are not American citizens.

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The crackup over open borders is today’s slavery debate. Beyond the moral questions, there’s a political crisis caused by a partisan faction trying to build modern slave power on the backs of people who do not vote or make no actual choice in voting, but who function on a political plantation meant to ensure the power of the machine.

The Supreme Court’s unconstitutional interference with the census was both illegal and revealing. Of all the modern political taboos, this is still one of the most explosive. Asking people whether they are here legally and whether they are citizens would transform the political system and end the runaway radicalism of the Left.

And so it has become the ultimate red line.

Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield

My name is Daniel Greenfield. I am a blogger and columnist born in Israel and living in New York City. I am a  Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a contributing editor at Family Security Matters. My original biweekly column appears at Front Page Magazine and my blog articles regularly appear at Family Security Matters, the Jewish Press, Times of Israel, Act for America and Right Side News, as well as daily at the Canada Free Press and a number of other outlets. I have a column titled Western Front at Israel National News and my op eds have also appeared in the New York Sun, the Jewish Press and at FOX Nation.

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