The political consequences of the U.S. census.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: Davies, Philip John | Copyright information

THE first US census was conducted in 1790 after the passage that year of the Census Act. The process was one signal that the young and recently independent nation was adopting more modem approaches than its perceived former 'oppressor', Britain, to politics and policy - it was another eleven years before the first modern British census took place. The motivation for the count in the US was directly political, and was stated in Article I of the Constitution of the United States, whi...

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