I'm not going to confess to knowing near as much as I should about the Constitution, but what is that you're talking about? Congress voted to keep the number of representatives the same from that point forward? What was the intended purpose of it? Did they write and pass legislation, or did they do the correct thing and amend the Constitution?
The Constitution limited Senate representation to two senators per state. House representation was set at one rep per X number of citizens so the people could know their representative personally and they run every two years so we could ‘throw the bums out’ .
By freezing representation they have ensured that we will not know our representative personally (as in neighbor) and made sure that as population grows it take institutional $$ to be able to run for reelection. $$ = power. $$ owns the house.
Moving the Senate representation to the popular vote accomplishes the same thing. When chosen by the state government, loyalties are to the state. Now loyalties are to the $$ (these are national/international agents) therefore loyalties of senators are no longer to States Rights but to the Fed and the globalists.
We gave thus lost our representative government and any government that is not representative will evolve toward a tyranny.
Remember the words of Benjamin Franklin after the Constitutional Convention “ You have your Republic, if you can keep it.”
That video explains it better than i ever could, its what woke me up... he is the legal mind, but best quick answer i can give is the real 1st ammendment was actually ratified and nobody knew it.
The states did not follow through and send paperwork on to Washington. These guys went back thru states archieves and found signed documents that should have ratified the amendment. That would supercede that vote they took to limit house reps to 435.
I think where i got that number, the amendment specified 1 house rep for every 50,000 people in the census.