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Gemini Pro was asked to review Grok’s analyses on this subject and, based on the information provided in those essays, and based on any information linked to therein, and based on whatever additional information Gemini Pro can access, it was asked to create an objective report that compares SMDs to ...

We asked Gemini to recommend technological solutions to support a House with 6,692 Representatives, the vast majority of which would be working from their home districts where they could better serve their constituents. A few hundred would could remain in DC to serve on committees and preside over ...

We asked Grok to recommend technological solutions to support a House with 6,692 Representatives, the vast majority of which would be working from their home districts where they could better serve their constituents. A few hundred would could remain in DC to serve on committees and preside over ...

We asked Microsoft Copilot AI to review all of our information relative to how substantially enlarging the House would affect gerrymandering and related voter empowerment. We also asked it to access any other information it can that is relevant to providing an objective analysis of this question ...

Gemini Pro was asked to evaluate Grok's analysis of the fiscal impact using all the documents and analyses referenced therein, and any other credible resources that it could access. Thirty-Thousand.org has long argued that enlarging the House would result in a substantial net reduction in federal ...

For this report, Grok evaluated the following two reports created by Gemini Pro:
Comprehensive Personnel & Operations Cost Analysis for a Hypothetical 6,692-Member House
The Potential Impact of Smaller Congressional Districts on Federal Spending

Based on those reports, the information provided ...

We asked Gemini Pro to estimate the total cost of a 6,692-member House of Representatives, which would bring it into compliance with the Constitution's one-person-one-vote requirement . Gemini built a fairly comprehensive estimate based on 2025 dollars, and assumed that virtually all of the ...

Gemini Pro was asked to evaluate Grok's report titled "Restoring Equal Representation: How Small Congressional Districts (~50,000 Residents) Eliminate Gerrymandering, Boost Voter Participation, and Empower Minority Communities" ( link ). Gemini's evaluation included all the relevant content from ...

This is a report created by Google’s Gemini Pro on August 12, 2025.

Gemini created and titled this report in response to our request to examine the arguments made by Thirty-Thousand.org that federal spending would decline as the size of the House of Representatives is increased (i.e., as the ...

Grok was asked to evaluate Thirty-Thousand.org‘s hypotheses that reducing the size of the House of Representatives‘ congressional districts to approximately 50,000 residents would:
Make it virtually impossible to gerrymander them sufficiently to disadvantage any particular voting block on a ...

As a follow-up to the report produced by Grok titled "Comparing Larger Multi-Member Districts (MMDs) vs. Smaller Single-Member Districts (SMDs) for the U.S. House of Representatives" link , we asked Grok this question:
Your report compares small SMDs (50,000 people) to larger multi-member ...

Relative to the US House of Representatives, Grok was asked to objectively compare the pros & cons of single-member districts (SMDs) with multimember districts (MMDs), the latter being required to implement what is commonly known as "proportional representation". In both scenarios, the average ...

This report has been replaced by an expanded version produced by Grok, available here .

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Grok was asked to evaluate our hypothesis that reducing the size of US House congressional districts to approximately 50,000 residents would significantly reduce gerrymandering and increase voter ...

When elected from congressional districts which contain only 50,000 people each, career politicians will be replaced with citizen legislators . And a great majority of them will be living and working from their home districts, where their constituents can get to know them, and monitor them. These ...

The states' legislatures deliberated upon the version that was sent to them, which really flummoxed them when they identified the mathematical defect. I cannot provide a short answer to your other questions, as they are worded. All of that is explained in the forthcoming elaboration. The website ...

I need to update those footnotes, don't I? The elaboration promised in footnote 8 and the history promised in #9 are referring to the same thing, and is still forthcoming. I need three of me to do everything I need to do. Thanks for asking.

This “Deep Research” report was created by Google’s Gemini AI on June 13, 2025 in response to a query from Thirty-Thousand.org to determine which delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 owned slaves. The information provided by this report was used to inform this essay: Free Versus Slave ...

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 Thirty-Thousand.org:
Establish Citizen Equality Nationwide
The Founders’ Rule: How large our House should ...

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 first" of the Bill of Rights as explained here on this webpage https://thirty-thousand.org/article-the-first-of-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 ...