Well, congress has kept their constituents per critter at almost criminally high levels for going on a century now. As we see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Well, congress has kept their constituents per critter at almost criminally high levels for going on a century now. As we see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_apportionment#House_size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap... It is constitutionally provided for to have ~30k citizens per critter. But congress is left to determine how many critters there should be. Providing more critters, and thus less people per critter would reduce the amount of power they wield individually, thus there are absolutely perverse incentives at work to keep our congressional representation as citizens to a minimum.