Lets make Congress truly representsative: finish the Founders work

[zorkpolitics]

It is a little known fact that the first proposed amendment to the Constitution is still pending.  In their infinite wisdom the founders proposed a Constitutional amendment that the maximum people per Congressional district should be 50,000.  If this amendment was ratified by another 26 states (it was ratified by 11 states in the 1790s), then the current Congress would be replaced by a convocation of over 5500 members!  This would be a much more representative "voice of the people Congress" than the current "damn the people we Democrats know what is best Congress."

So please lobby your local state legislatures to ratify the First proposed amendment today.

For a list of states that have ratified this amendment see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment

[WillK]

It is a little known fact that the first proposed amendment to the Constitution is still pending.  In their infinite wisdom the founders proposed a Constitutional amendment that the maximum people per Congressional district should be 50,000.  If this amendment was ratified by another 26 states (it was ratified by 11 states in the 1790s), then the current Congress would be replaced by a convocation of over 5500 members!  This would be a much more representative "voice of the people Congress" than the current "damn the people we Democrats know what is best Congress."

So please lobby your local state legislatures to ratify the First proposed amendment today.

For a list of states that have ratified this amendment see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment

You do realize it might result in an even more Democratic congress

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

It is a little known fact that the first proposed amendment to the Constitution is still pending.  In their infinite wisdom the founders proposed a Constitutional amendment that the maximum people per Congressional district should be 50,000.  If this amendment was ratified by another 26 states (it was ratified by 11 states in the 1790s), then the current Congress would be replaced by a convocation of over 5500 members!  This would be a much more representative "voice of the people Congress" than the current "damn the people we Democrats know what is best Congress."

So please lobby your local state legislatures to ratify the First proposed amendment today.

For a list of states that have ratified this amendment see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment

You do realize it might result in an even more Democratic congress

Right, because Republocrat partisan politics is what it's all about?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I'm pretty sure the wisdom of a bunch of wealthy land owners 225 years or so ago wasn't quite "infinite."

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

the text says no more than one rep per 50,000 people, not no less, so no change to the number of representatives would be required by the amendment as currently written

[Psychic Octopus]

How about no...

[perdedor]

I'm pretty sure the wisdom of a bunch of wealthy land owners 225 years or so ago wasn't quite "infinite."

[Хahar 🤔]

Apportionment at present complies with this.

[Padfoot]

How about no...

lol

Although I certainly agree that a body too large would be just as ineffectual as our present Congress, I do feel that we currently have a certain degree of malapportionment that should be corrected.  The fact that Montana has nearly twice the population of Wyoming and yet they both have only one representative really brings into question whether we are receiving equal representation across state lines.  IMO a much better amendment would mandate that the nationwide average congressional district population be no more than 10% larger than the population of the least populated state as of the most recent census.  Small states already have an extremely overinflated influence over Congress in the Senate, they weren't meant to have one in the House as well.

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How about no...

Well, we already have Senator Palpatine I-CT.

[jimrtex]

It is a little known fact that the first proposed amendment to the Constitution is still pending.  In their infinite wisdom the founders proposed a Constitutional amendment that the maximum people per Congressional district should be 50,000.  If this amendment was ratified by another 26 states (it was ratified by 11 states in the 1790s), then the current Congress would be replaced by a convocation of over 5500 members!  This would be a much more representative "voice of the people Congress" than the current "damn the people we Democrats know what is best Congress."

So please lobby your local state legislatures to ratify the First proposed amendment today.

For a list of states that have ratified this amendment see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment

The current limit is no more than one per 30,000.   So if it were ratified, it would lower the current maximum from about 10,000 to around 6,000.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

It wouldn't change anything, if passed. It would just have a minimum of 200 and a maximum of around 6000.