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I agree fully! Apparently they stopped adding representatives when they filled up the space in the capital building. I've been intending for ages to pull up the
by ab5tract 9y ago
I agree fully! Apparently they stopped adding representatives when they filled up the space in the capital building. I've been intending for ages to pull up the ratio mandated by the constitution to see how many "missing" representatives we have today.
- Doe22 9y agoIt looks like Article 1 Section 2 has what you're looking for, specifically "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative" [1] Wikipedia also seems to provide a good summary of the issue. [2] [1] https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript#toc-section-2- https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcri... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_apportionment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap...