re: #120 subsailor68

I salute you for that. (Not a lawyer either, but it seems to me you met the requirement set out in the Constitution. Probably why they never got back to ya.)

There’s a debate on the legal aspects, Congress empowers the Census Bureau and they under that authority get to ask certain things. There’s no speed limits in the Constitution, but there are speed limits everywhere. There is force of law to it.

There is a penalty for not replying.

I don’t think it’s ever really been challenged, and the Census Bureau probably isn’t willing to go to the mat to get every single person to comply.