The 435 members of Congress was set a hundred years ago when we had less than 100 million people. We have over three times that number now.
The Constitution specifies no more than 1:30,000. We are over 1:700,000 now. There should be around 5,000 Congressmen. Let San Francisco send a dozen freaks, and my rural FL panhandle county will send a single good ‘ol boy.
Every ten years the country goes nuts with reapportionment. Almost all plans end up in court where libs abuse the unconstitutional Voting Rights Act. This judicial nonsense could be largely avoided if there was a rep for every 30-40K citizens.
My two cents.
Make that 435 of the House. Oops.
Absolutely and whole-heartedly agree. Another Freeper had this organization in his/her tagline. I’m considering changing mine to put it in. This is a good site for those interested in what we have mentioned:
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/
As you said, this situation is ridiculous. The apportionment nonsense would be virtually halted overnight. It’s hard to gerrymander 30l people. And even harder to buy off all the reps, especially when they’re not all galavanting in Washington D.C. with their staffers.