07-29-2022, 02:58 PM
Changing the Senate, absent a Constitutional amendment which will never happen, will only occur if places like Puerto Rico finally are admitted as state.
However, what no one ever talks about, is that the size of the House of Representatives is entirely in the hands of Congress itself. The House was artificially set at 435 over 100 years ago by statute. This move totally screwed up the intention of the Founders to have the House be proportionally representative of each state's population. For instance, California should have at least 13 more seats than they do based on their nearly 40 million citizens vs Wyoming's 600,000 if districts were based on the lowest population. If we go back to the Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 3, there was supposed to be 1 seat per every 30,000 in population with a minimum of 1 per state. Using that number California should have 1333 districts. I admit that 1333 is unwieldy, but uncapping the size of the House to at least allow for the seat to be properly apportioned would ease some of the issues surrounding the electoral college.
However, what no one ever talks about, is that the size of the House of Representatives is entirely in the hands of Congress itself. The House was artificially set at 435 over 100 years ago by statute. This move totally screwed up the intention of the Founders to have the House be proportionally representative of each state's population. For instance, California should have at least 13 more seats than they do based on their nearly 40 million citizens vs Wyoming's 600,000 if districts were based on the lowest population. If we go back to the Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 3, there was supposed to be 1 seat per every 30,000 in population with a minimum of 1 per state. Using that number California should have 1333 districts. I admit that 1333 is unwieldy, but uncapping the size of the House to at least allow for the seat to be properly apportioned would ease some of the issues surrounding the electoral college.
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