[Political Junkie Too]

As long as Levin is going to suggest Article V solutions to changing our federal government via amendment, I thought I'd throw out an Article IV Section 3 solution into the mix.

Let's try to alter the make-up of Congress by adding new states to the Union.

If we split California into two states, one that contains Los Angeles and San Francisco, and another that contains everything else, we can add two more Republican Senators to Congress.

If we split Texas into two states, we can add another two Republican Senators to Congress.

We might even try splitting Florida into two states, possibly adding two more Republican Senators, although Florida is slowly turning purple.

Currently, Republicans have 46 out of 100 seats, or 46% of the votes. Adding two Senators for California2 and two Senators for Texas2 yields 50 out of 104 seats, or 48% of the vote. If we throw in a secure Florida2 as well, it becomes 52 out of 106 seats, or 49% of the vote.

After this, we can look to increasing the cap of 435 representatives in the House, too.

There are just too many people these days to be represented by a body whose capacity was fixed in 1911, when the national population was 92 million people. The population is now 310 million people. We need more members in the House to keep up with the growth in population over the last 100 years.

-PJ

[EricT.]

I fail to see what more Republicans in Washington will do to solve what ails this country. They’re responsible for a good portion of what’s wrong with it in the first place.

[GraceG]

There are just too many people these days to be represented by a body whose capacity was fixed in 1911, when the national population was 92 million people. The population is now 310 million people. We need more members in the House to keep up with the growth in population over the last 100 years.

Why not just peacibly partition the USA into three seprate nation states?

Pacific, Atlantic and Heartland, ie. Texas