[Jacquerie]

Article V ping!

[spintreebob]

The intent of the founders was that all money bills, both tax and spend, would originate in the House.

Many decades ago the House abdicated that power to the executive branch.

Can and should the power of the House be restored?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The way I see it, technology has overcome the limitations of large districts to some extent, but they still need to be made smaller. I propose a doubling of the number of Representatives after each census until the number of people in each district shrinks to 100,000.

The way the Constitution lays out Congressional districts, with the district boundaries having to be within state lines, large districts represent people unevenly, with some districts having as few as 500,000 people, and others having as many as 1,000,000. With roughly 100,000 people per district, on the other hand, such population differences wouldn’t be anywhere nearly as extreme.

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