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FredericK.....can you please supply some links if possible.....Thank you

Do you see why, President Washington vetoed the first Apportionment Bill! President Washington provided two reasons. The most indisputable reason was that the Constitution specified that the district population size (as calculated) could not fall below 30,000 . In Congress's first apportionment ...

All the points are well taken, but has anyone considered that the 17th to be null and void if the individual State desires!
Point is…it takes 2/3 of Congress, 2/3 of the States or 3/4 Legislature of the State to propose Amendments, I am sure you know that part. Take a close look at the very last ...

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President Washington vetoed the first aportionment bill, because Congress was not aloting uniformed Representation ratio between all the States.

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New Hampshire / 5 Representatives / 1790 Census Pop 141,885 (141,885/5 = 28,377 to ...

President Washington vetoed the first aportionment bill, because Congress was not aloting uniformed Representation ratio between all the States.

Going to this site
http://www.legistorm.com/salaries/house_bonuses.html

I found that the average salary of a congressional staffer is about 80k (that graph shows amount per quarter, so you have to add 4 quarters). The salary of a congressman is $170k.
From some other site, I saw that the average ...

Did someone say spreadsheet….just so happens I started one a few weeks ago based on IMO.
I have finally found some people that see this issue (Ratio) as important as I do. Out of this new found exhilaration….. I find myself with a fire under my butt, to finish what I started. The spreadsheet only ...

I have never understood that argument "gridlocking the State", we would not have gridlock if the Senators were elected by the Legislature, just as we (the soverigen) elect the Representatives of our States. We are not appointing a member to SCOTUS... we are deligating our soverign rights to a ...

The Senate was to remain constant, two per State and the House to grow.

Presidential elections would heavily favor more populous states
Take a look at the 2010 census:
There are 39 States with 142,471,899 inhabitants/ 50,000 per district = 2,849 House Representatives, but those 39 States hold 78 ...

I never took the the election of our State Representatives (Senators)to be by appointment. Article 1 Section 3 states "chosen by the Legislature" it is the same as the people of the State chosen their Representative under Article 1 Section2 "chosen every second year by the People of the several ...