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Of note is that United States has severely fallen off the cube root law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root_la
by shagie 4y ago
Of note is that United States has severely fallen off the cube root law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root_law ) which is more an observation than a law... but tells of how big the house of representatives should be.
> The cube root law is an observation in political science that the number of members of a unicameral legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature, is about the cube root of the population being represented.
The US population is about 336M which would put the size at 696.
This would change it from an average of 754k people / representative to 483k people.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/09/opinion/expanded-house-representatives-size.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/09/opinion/expan...