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To: Jacquerie

One representative for every 30,000 persons!
States elect senators anyway they want!
House of Reps must meet in a coliseum or stadium because there should be over 5000 of them! Problem solved.

We cannot pretend that there is any kind of democracy at work in our government when we have so few representatives. Only a small number of them need to be bribed or threatened to get something done. Term limits will do nothing to address this problem.


17 posted on 04/07/2017 5:47:28 AM PDT by BDParrish (One representative for every 30,000 persons!)
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To: BDParrish

George Mason, Elbridge Gerry, and Patrick Henry were all over the inadequacy of representation in the House. From what I’ve read, by Herbert Storing and Cecilia Kenyon, the Anti-Federalists may have prevailed if they had concentrated their criticism on a House of Reps they were sure would become aristocratic. With a ratio of Reps to people today at over 1:720,000, they were right.


25 posted on 04/07/2017 9:37:44 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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