“The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new.” FirstsLooksGamesHouseInterestIssuesPresidentialExtrasSeatsFormulasVirginiaPartisansNothing NewHamiltonVetoCensus Author:Kenneth Prewitt
“The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons.” PeopleWayReasonFacesDesignSillyCleverOne WayBehaveAgencyAssertionPartisansIncompetentTiltCensusCensus Bureau Author:Kenneth Prewitt
