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Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three." I'm not a constitutional scholar but I think the phrase "free Persons" refers to non slaves. The 13th amendment abolished slavery, which modified this clause and then the 14th amendment revised the meaning to the number of "whole number of persons in each state" not the "three fifths" of the slaves. 14th Amendment, Section 2: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." I think that is about as clear as mud as to whether or not non citizens, or specifically, illegal aliens should be counted in the enumeration. Moreover how would you count them anyway or discern whether or not the respondents at a specific address were illegal or not. They could just lie. It is just a paper form that a person can fill out any which way they like. I highly doubt there is any system in place to verify based on tax filings, welfare recipient logs, etc that would corroborate whether or not the people residing at a specific address are legal citizens or not. My guess is illegal aliens would never disclose on a census form that they are illegal as that would obviously be very incriminating. I know back in 2020 I didn't fill mine out for many weeks. They sent people to my door several times and I never answered. Finally they sent me certified mail with proof of mailing / signature of receipt threatening legal action if the form was not received for my address. Filled it out. Never heard another word from them. I think they can scare people into submitting the form but verifying whether or not any questions on the form are answered correctly are impossible to verify. For various reasons I think it would be handy information to know how many total people are in a state / district (legals and illegals), however representation should only be determined by legal citizens. If you have voter ID rules in place it should be a moot point. Moreover the entire country has been gerrymandered into oblivion such that even legal citizens votes don't really count. There are 435 congressional districts in the country but only 22 or 25 are contestable.

I wonder what Volvo trucks manufactured elsewhere on the globe use. 12 or 24V? Is it just a North America problem?

Info is sketchy at this point but the magnum engines were a further refinement of the bigger 60 degree V6s for heavy truck engine use. The had bigger carbs, A different intake port design, larger valves and possibly a different cam profile all geared toward higher torque and horsepower figures.

Good luck. The good news is you won’t be missing out on any type of nice weather during your recovery. Probably the best time of year to have something like this done and be laid up.

We just moved to a new place in October and it’s not set up for any type of solid fuel heating appliances yet. Well it is but I don’t trust the chimneys. All I have right now is a propane forced air furnace. And I never got around to installing a 30A receptacle to backfeed the main panel with. 100% reliant on electric utility to stay warm at this point. I had a power outage last night on probably the harshest night yet this winter. Amazing how that happens. I’m surrounded by Amish so the transformer out on the pole is solely for my house. It “blew” at about 8:30 or 9:00. I called it in and honestly didn’t think they would come out until the morning since the weather was dangerous and my house was the only one affected. I couldn’t believe it but 25 minutes later this guy shows up by himself. Sets up on a 45mph state highway. No traffic control. 4” of snow on the road. 40mph wind. 9 degree temp and goes up and changes a fuse I think he said. Plus he was laying in the snow under his truck to get the frozen outrigger sensors to work to allow his bucket to go up. If this guy wasn’t making $250/hr he wasn’t getting paid enough. I was in awe…

is the Neway air ride factory?

No affiliation. Just passing along an upcoming auction listing I saw for a pretty scarce model of MH. Not too often you see an MH with factory "big power". Would be a nice unit for someone looking to run an MH or vintage cabover with good specs for contemporary times. 1985 MACK MH633 Upcoming Auctions in Washougal, Washington | Equipmentfacts

not sure if I should put this here or in the scale modeling section but AMT makes a nice Cruiseliner 1:25 model kit. AMT Mack Cruise-Liner Semi Tractor 1:25 Scale Model Kit | Auto World Store

On the front of the engine where the right cylinder head mates to the block there is a horizontal ledge cast into the block with the model and serial number stamped into it. the first three digits are the cubic inches. If the first three digits are followed by a letter "M" it is a magnum. I think there was an "E" designation on the 305s and 351s but I'm not sure what the E stood for. Also, "C" and "N" designations. Again, no idea what those meant either.

Honestly with an antique vehicle just bobtailing around with no load you can shift a quad or a tri as just a 5 speed with the auxiliary in lo or direct and then once in 5th shift the aux to hi and forget about all that shifting.

Not sure which model of quad you are after but here are the ratios for a direct triplex and overdrive quadruplex. If you look study the ratios and percent drops in the sequence you can see why it is recommended some should not be used. You can use all 20 forward gears with no ill effects, however, in a practical sense it makes no sense to do so.

Any vehicle sold in USA after I think 2001 model year was/is required to be able to burn gasoline with up to 15% ethanol. If you read the fine print on each gas pump it always says may contain up to 15% ethanol. Then sometime in the early 2000s they came out with E85 (85%) ethanol fuel made from corn. The vehicle has to be specifically made to burn it. It will have a yellow fuel filler cap if so. Most stations outside the Midwest don't have it but it is really cheap compared to 87 "regular" gasoline. But I heard you take a really significant hit to your fuel economy when using it so it probably all balances out. IMO ethanol in gasoline is the biggest scam ever imposed on the motoring public.

End the Federal Reserve completely. It has long outlived its usefulness. Its legal existence is highly questionable and its motives, as it pertains to the average citizen, are dubious at best.

6 more weeks. Phil said so.... Groundhog Day 2026: Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter

My guess is the ruling class wants never ending market and GDP growth. Also, the USA has not been at replacement birth rate since the very early 2000s. And even then it had been stagnated at barley above or below replacement rate since the mid 1970s. If you don't believe the AI hype then in order to continue year over year GDP growth you need more workers and consumers (children) than the current 2 generations of child bearing age Americans are willing to provide. If there are illegal immigrants here who have become assimilated and are gainfully employed then it would be easier to get them on the books and give them citizenship rather than deport them and either hope young, native Americans starting having more babies (they won't) or start over and properly vet several hundred thousand or million new legal immigrants.