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More Voices, Better Representation: Why It's Time to Increase the Size of the U.S. House of Representatives

This is a "Deep Research" report created by Google’s Gemini AI on April 6, 2025.
Gemini created and titled this report in response to a request to examine the following two articles from ...

The Unratified "Article the First" of the Bill of Rights: A Missed Opportunity for Proportional Representation

This is a "Deep Research" report created by Google’s Gemini AI on March 31, 2025.
Gemini created this in response to this question: “Are you familiar with the story of "Article the ...

The reason that Article the first was never ratified by the states is that it contained an unexpected defect in its formulation which effectively rendered it nonsensical and then inconsequential. That is explained here: https://thirty-thousand.org/article-the ... of-rights/

With the exception of Delaware, every state that ratified articles three through twelve (as the first ten amendments to the Constitution) also ratified Article the first . Presumably many of the state legislatures that initially ratified it did not realize its formulation contained a fatal flaw that ...

Several dialogues have transpired with ChatGPT relative to representational enlargement. Below is an unedited excerpt of one such exchange. It begins by focusing on how the House of Representatives is in violation of the Constitution’s one-person-one-vote equality principle as a consequence of there ...

National Review article: How the 17th Amendment Ruined Federalism . Here are some excerpts…

The Senate was meant to protect states as distinct governments with independent powers. State legislatures are part of those governments. Thus, in pursuing their self-interest, they will tend to seek to ...

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Updated May 10, 2023

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Relative to gerrymandering, it turns out that, as of now “ neither party enjoys a significant aggregate advantage in either districting or geographical efficiency of voter distribution ”. This refers to the net effect in the House of Representatives. That is, one party's advantages in some states ...

In an excellent Washington Post editorial by Danielle Allen, she addresses the question of whether a bigger House would make it “harder to get things done”. With regards to that, she notes that “ the most important point is that the principle of inclusion requires us to learn how to operate on a ...

According to this Gallup Poll , once again Americans identify our government as the nation’s #1 problem in 2022. All the other problems they identify are either created by, or aggravated by, our government. (December 2022 poll.)

We need to greatly enlarge our House of Representatives in order for ...

According to a recent update from OpoenSecrets.org, 2022 federal midterm election spending on track to top $9.3 billion!

In a recent Newsweek editorial, Ben Weingarten (Claremont Institute Fellow) discusses The Outrageous, Republic-Distorting Census Error You've Heard Nothing About .

For a deeper analysis of this same subject, and how it relates to having a grossly undersized House of Representatives, see our ...

Business Insider: 72 members of Congress have violated a law designed to prevent insider trading and stop conflicts-of-interest .

“Insider and several other news organizations have identified 72 members of Congress who've recently failed to properly report their financial trades as mandated by the ...

Stock Trades Reported by Nearly a Fifth of Congress Show Possible Conflicts

According to the New York Times’ analysis of stock trades from 2019 to 2021, “more than 3,700 trades reported by lawmakers from both parties posed potential conflicts between their public responsibilities and private ...

It's very lucrative to be a member of America’s political ruling class:
“Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) net worth ballooned from an estimated $7 million when she first took office in 2017 to possibly more than $44 million in 2020, according to analysis from the Center for Responsive Politics and her most ...

Over a third of the 435 Representatives voted by proxy on August 12, 2022, for House Resolution 8. Absurdly named the “Inflation Reduction Act”, this bill authorizes spending several hundred billion dollars on various government programs. That spending includes billions of additional dollars for the ...

Washington Times: Pelosi’s husband buys $5 million in chip stocks before Senate vote on chip subsidy bill .

"Mr. Pelosi purchased roughly $5 million, or 20,000 shares of Nvidia, last month ... The purchase comes on the heels of a vote next week ... that would shore up the U.S. computer chip ...

In his article about our massively oversized congressional districts, Professor Swofford sums it up quite well: “ members of Congress tend to be more like other members of Congress rather than more like their constituents ”.

That’s the problem: The Representatives rarely resemble their ...

My view is that in the absence of Article the first , Congress would be constitutionally compelled to select the House size that results in congressional district sizes with the least amount of variation in their sizes. This is explained here:
Achieving One-Person-One-Vote equality in the federal ...

OpenSecrets.org: "Unprecedented $1 billion first quarter lobbying haul puts 2022 on track for record year"

Read about the The Founders’ proposal for a much larger House of Representatives.

I just stumbled across this paper from 2011:
One Person, One Vote, 435 Seats: Interstate Malapportionment and Constitutional Requirements Is Our Constitutional Order Broken - Structural and Doctrinal Questions in Constitutional Law: Gerrymandering, Congressional Representation, and Trust in the ...

National Review: Ben Sasse Calls for Repealing 17th Amendment, Eliminating Popular-Vote Senate Elections (September 2020)

Brookings.edu : Proxy voting turns one: The past, present and future of remote voting in the House (May 2021)

"Alongside these uses of proxy voting as a workplace accommodation are several examples where members of
both parties cast votes by proxy but were reported to be engaging in other ...

Forbes.com: U.S. National Debt Surpasses $30 Trillion: What This Means For You (Feb 2022)

"But as unfathomable as this number is, the national debt can impact ordinary Americans’ lives."