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To: Brian Griffin

The constitution is rationally designed.

We effed it up with the 17th ammendment. Repeal it and cap house representation to a reasonable number like 250K instead of the current and growing 700K.


37 posted on 01/14/2025 7:38:45 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Valpal1
Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution states, "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand". The 2020 census recorded a U.S. resident population of 331,449,281. Deducting for non-citizens, legal or not, there are likely somewhere around 300 million citizens. If the Constitution were followed, we would have about 10,000 representatives rather than 435, a number agreed to in 1913. At that time, there was one representative per 212,000 U.S. residents. Currently, that figure is at 762,000, a population greater than the most populous state in 1790, Virginia with 748,000 residents.

Technology such as Zoom makes a 10,000 member legislature possible.

39 posted on 01/14/2025 7:59:15 AM PST by Wallace T.
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