{"id":928,"date":"2010-03-03T08:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=928"},"modified":"2017-02-25T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T18:23:01","slug":"back-to-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2010\/03\/back-to-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I write a bit on Congress, I go back to thinking about Representation. I am rethinking my original idea on making it 1 representative for every 100,000 citizens. The Constitution sets a lower limit of 30,000 per representative but it doesn&#8217;t set an upper limit. Evidently, 100 years ago Congress fixed the House of Representatives at 435 because they ran out of room in their chamber. This leads to one representative <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population\">for over 700,000 citizens, on average, with Montana having one representative for over 950,000, today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While 1\/100K is a reasonable number &#8211; I think it give the citizens of each district a better chance to meet and know their representative and to share their views with them &#8211; I am willing to work with other numbers. 210,000 is about as high as I would like to go.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Close to what the level was when congress fixed the number of Representative<\/a>s. People still have an opportunity to know their rep. Montana would have 5 representatives (OK there is a down side to most ideas). <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_congressional_apportionment\">We would be closer to a representative democracy, closer than the country has been in a hundred years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, if We the People don&#8217;t do our job, nothing much will change in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I write a bit on Congress, I go back to thinking about Representation. I am rethinking my original idea on making it 1 representative for every 100,000 citizens. The Constitution sets a lower limit of 30,000 per representative but it doesn&#8217;t set an upper limit. Evidently, 100 years ago Congress fixed the House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2010\/03\/back-to-representation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to Representation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-eY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}