I asked a similar question earlier but I think I phrased it incorrectly, so I'll try again: the original rule for the house of representitives was "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand", however the number of representitives became fixed at a rate of 435 in 1911, and currently we have one representitive for every 690,000 people. It seems to me that the forefathers of the country did not expect our country to get this big, and how can we justify watering down our democracy due to population increase?
2006-09-09
05:53:57
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