adjust the house of representatives to 1911 proportionality
 

The most recent expansion to the House of Representatives was in 1911, when the U.S. population was about 93 million, so a representative had 212,000 constituents. With the current population of 293 million, a representative has 674,000 constituents. To bring this number back to its 1911 value, the House should be expanded to 1370 members.

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They'd hafta substantially rebuild the House chamber to pack all that many in there.

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I was thinking build a new chamber comparable to the Senate in Star Wars: Episode I. All nice and fancy, not Louis XIV

They could use the Redskins stadium.

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Why not bring it back to the Constitutional minimum of 30,000 constituents per representative while we're at it???

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not a bad idea.

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There is a thought....we could eventually go to the "corporate structure" of representation with a middle management layer. Representatives for representatives...

I thought we were already headed in the corporation owned government as it is now.

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I once asked my congressman about this. He replied that political scientists who have studied this have determined that once you get around the 600-650 range, the body becomes unwieldy and ineffective.

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As opposed to how unwieldy and ineffective they are now? lol.