Young Americans are piling the blame for their student debt balances on conservatives, according to a poll by Generation Lab provided exclusively to Axios.
wouldn’t exactly be fair that ~40 million Californians stomped on everything 500k Wyomese
Thats what the fucking senate is for, why the hell is the house capped? /ranting
Did a little reading on this, here’s what I found:
The house has been “capped” or at least limited in size the whole time actually!
The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative;
Now that we count everyone and not just white people, that’d be a max somewhere in the range of 11000 representatives without a constitutional amendment.
11000 is probably too many people to try and assemble in one room and come to any sort of consensus, so you’d have to artificially lower the number somehow.
It turns out that the legislature is allowed to set it’s own size, but both the House and the Senate have to agree. The current size of 435 members comes from the Reapportionment Act of 1929, so it’s been established for a while.
I think my favorite option is the “Wyoming Rule” and it works like this: smallest state gets one representative, and everyone else gets representatives based on how many times their population is more than that of the smallest state. Under that rule the house would have 574 members, which still feels like a relatively reasonable amount of people
e: herp derp,you never had to own land to be counted
There was never a time in US history where only landowners could vote. The idea was discussed and discraded as unworkable. What did happen was states were allowed to put that restriction in place. Few states did and eventually the law was changed to ban that
What you’re describing actually removed the limited ability for both women and blacks to vote In outlying cases. States that tied voting rights to property ownership alone were, in my opinion, the ones actually taking the high road at the time…
“Discarded as unworkable” indeed…
