2010 Census - Predict The Future?

Today I got my 2010 Census form [I received the long form] and it said I need to mail it back today. Fair enough.

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Question 1. "How many people were living in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2010?

Number of people = _ _ "

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Below is the letter I am sending with the completed form:

March 20, 2010

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.

Since the census form requested the number of occupants at this address on April 1, 2010 and today is March 20, 2010 and I am unable to predict the future this question has a null value. I am mailing the completed form today on said date. Therefore, I have completed the 2010 census per the mailing instructions.

The address listed on the census form is private property and I am not authorizing any census workers on this property. Any and all trespassers will be prosecuted.

Respectfully,

A Citizen of the United States of America

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On top of that the data collected is not confidential and used only for the uses as stated by the Constitution:

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2744