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You might be interested to know that there was an Amendment to the Constitution that was only one state short of being approved that attempted to address this p
by halviti 12y ago
You might be interested to know that there was an Amendment to the Constitution that was only one state short of being approved that attempted to address this problem early.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Bill_of_Rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_State...
- nostrademons 12y agoAccording to the text of that Wikipedia article, Article One would have no effect on the present Congress. "nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons" means that each representative must represent at least 50k people; the smallest congressional district (Rhode Island's 1st, at 527,000 people) exceeds that by a factor of ten.