The NY Times’ proposals for enlarging the House would be ineffectual
The New York Times identifies some of the problems resulting from the House of Representatives being “far too small”. Unfortunately, their preferred solutions would fail to solve those problems.
How Congress Politically Marginalizes Communities of Interest
Because the House of Representatives is far too small, many smaller communities are subsumed into enormous and politically contrasting congressional districts, effectively disenfranchising millions of Americans.
Multimember Congressional Districts in the Early Republic
In the Early Republic the Representatives were elected to Congress either from single-member districts or as part of a statewide slate.
Game Theory: Miscounting the Census
Based on data provided by the Census Bureau, the 2020 population census appears to have been heavily biased to advantage one political party over the other. As it turns out, having too small of a House of Representatives creates a powerful incentive for some states to game the census process.
Population Miscounts and Apportionment Inequities
Another inequity resulting from having too few Representatives is that relatively small population miscounts produce inordinately inequitable misallocations of representation.
Rediscovery of Article the first’s inexplicable defect
Who in modern scholarship was the first to identify the mysterious defect in the Bill of Rights' first Article? Credit appears to go to Professor Amar at Yale University.
The Federalist & Anti-Federalist Dialectic
Judge Oldham talks about the significance of the Anti-Federalists’ writings relative to understanding the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
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