Busy Americans who don't like dealing with government paperwork will get a break in the year 2000 _ the Census Bureau short form will have just seven questions, the fewest since 1820. No longer ...

The U.S. government asked about citizenship for 130 years — from 1820 to 1950 — as part of the decennial “short form ... census data is used to determine the distribution of federal ...

It was added to the census in 1820 with a question that asked ... Not completing the census form is actually a violation of federal law. As for constitutionality, Art. I, Sec.

If the Trump administration gets its way, federal ... time in 1820 to the most recent in 2000, when only a small sample of households were asked, questions about citizenship on the census have ...