These protests and riots show a frustration people have with our government I believe. When we are told to be a part of government and to contact our Representatives over and over it becomes a joke considering the ratio of Reps to citizens is 1 per 700,000+. Washington DC is full of lobbyists to control the vote of our Reps. The Pharmaceutical companies alone have twice as much money spent for lobbyists and to influence our Reps than any other business group and they have more lobbyists than the actual members we have in Congress. Something has to change before we give up on the experimental form of government our first residents started over two hundred years ago.
The Constitution in Article I Section II says:
…The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, …
The Congress has two sides. One side is the House Of Representatives and it is for the people and the people vote them in. The other is the Senate which concerns itself with the wants of the State Governors or the State Legislature but is voted in by the people because of an Amendment. The Senate is set at two members per state by the Constitution. At the same time the Constitution says the House shall not consist of more than one per thirty thousand citizens but at least one Representative per state. The Constitution does not say it has to be right at that ratio though. With 330 million citizens the House would be upwards of 11,000 Representatives. The Founders figured that the people would have wanted as much representation as they could have so they just put in the maximum number allowed.
The year 1900 after the census the Congress set the House membership at 435. That is where it has stayed. Congress did not apportion the House after the 1910 census or after the 1920 census. I guess it was too hard. Maybe the building was full or maybe they were told not to by the British and the City Of London. Maybe they didn’t increase the House because they were told not to by the bankers of the newly created Federal Reserve. Maybe they didn’t because the women got the right to vote. Maybe there was so much going on like the airplane and cheap Fords the radio and radar and the first world war. But in 1929 with a congress controlled by Republicans and a Republican in the White House they passed a law to set the House at 435 members. At that same time we entered the Great Depression. Bad Karma if you ask me. Did they have the right to do that? Did they Amend the Constitution by a vote that is Unconstitutional? I say yes. They took away our right that wasn’t even in the Bill Of Rights. It is a right spelled out in the document. Read it again above. The language is very clear. You can also go read the law they passed in 1929 called The Apportionment Act Of 1929. They don’t give any reason for limiting it at 435. They had no studies done where it was determined by the smartest scientists in the land that 435 was the ultimate number to get business done. They just did it. They had DC controlled by Republicans and did it without even a debate. It was decided behind closed doors.
We have allowed it to go on for 100 years and it is time to change it and take back our Country. Seven States in the Union still have just one Representative. Just because the Constitution says every State shall have at least one does not mean any state must have one Representative. I’m surprised those seven States haven’t done something about it already. Once again it is Congress trying to subvert the citizens right to representation and give it to corporations with money. We need to demand at least 2000 members now and then increase it every two years in future elections up to 1 per 30,000. Within 10 years we could have the House Of Representatives up to where it should be and being represented as we were promised. Just in time for another Reapportionment after the 2030 census. The Constitution says the members will decide how each house operates but says they only have to meet together once a year. We should plan or demand the House members stay in their home district and hire local people for office help etc. They can use the internet for meetings and other communications. Some will have to fly into a central area or Washington DC to manage different government departments from time to time and once a year they will fly to a different arena around the country for a yearly get together. Maybe they will want to tear down the National Mall and build a bigger building for the House to meet in. Maybe they will want to move DC to the center of the Country. The Congress can decide all that. That is not the people’s job, all we have to do is vote the members in. They will decide how to do it. Give it consideration. Don’t just write it off saying it won’t work. The people that ratified it 200 years ago left the words in there as it was written so let’s do it before we give up and throw the whole Constitution in the wastebasket. Remember this is not a Constitutional Convention I am talking of. This is much better and easier. Just doing what the Constitution already allows. I suppose the Supreme Court may have to agree to this.
Something people also don’t know is when the Bill Of Rights were proposed to be added to the Constitution there were 12 Amendments total. The first one actually named First Amendment, concerned changing the above clause from 1 per 30,000 to 1 per 50,000 in a graduated formula but it also added a clause that the Congress would have been able to limit the House Of Representatives to 200 members. That Amendment did not pass by one state and I’m glad it didn’t. That Amendment is still active and could be passed but with more states ratifying it. I don’t think it should be ratified but be aware of the fact that the original citizens of the USA left the words in there for us and we must take advantage of them and increase the size of the House to 1 per 30,000 or about 11,000 members. We will get involved back into our country like it used to be and maybe things will stay the same they are now. That is not important how it turns out, it is the process of finishing this experiment we have among us and doing it as it was written.
For one more bit of information Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand our historic sister countries all have more representation per population and land size than we have. We have a World Police Force and our Dollar is the Reserve Currency in the World yet we are controlled by the fewest people and they have all been corrupted.
This is one solution for going forward in this Country before we tear it down. We had a President face a coup with no consequences. Our Country is broken, our dollar is about to fail, something needs to be done about the Fed and Wall Street Bankers and our leaders are terrible and really seem out of touch. Everyone knows there is a problem and we have to deal with it sometime. Washington DC has become the richest metro area in the USA. I’m to the point of throwing in the towel but happened to read the Constitution again just lately, as it had been years as I’m sure is true of many others, and thought this might be a way to save our country. I have always been proud of America and respected keeping the experiment we had a success. If you feel the same I hope you suggest this to your friends and get people considering the idea.
For more information click thirty-thousand.org
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The biggest objection will be too many Representatives will be unmanageable but that has no basis in justice but does in coercion. Of course maybe the laws passed will be actually wanted and needed instead of nonsense for special interest. People always say Congress does nothing but what is wrong with that? Let us live with what was passed for awhile. Pass laws that will last and were well thought out.
As I said I am not concerned for a certain outcome as in Democrat or Republican in fact this may help to lose their grip of Americans. The Constitution does not allow them per say to have power. But we are free to associate. My concern is for the people wanting to be free with life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and I would like to follow through with the original plan and see if it does work or was it destined to fail.
Trump lit a spark under the people but he will be gone in 4 years regardless. If he doesn’t have a plan for the future then we will revert back to the current or past ways. You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
Also consider the time before during and after the Civil War. People were really involved in their government and that is why I said with all the new exciting happenings at the turn of the century maybe the people felt the government would always do them right.
The last thing I will say here, I always thought the Declaration etc. was for the government to get out of the way and some think the government has to provide our life, liberty and happiness instead of allowing it to naturally happen. That will end up being the difference between the People it seems.
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