[metesky]

One of the first posts I ever made on FR was about lack of representation. That post was pooh-poohed simular to this one.

When the BOR was submitted to Congress, the original 1st Amendment was as follows:

Article the first [Not Ratified] After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.

This was one of those times when the Founders simply screwed up.

[djreece]

So if my math and understanding of their formula is correct, the Founding Fathers would have wanted us today to have 1,558 Congressional representatives, each representing 180,000 people.