At 03:56 11/16/2000 -0600, you wrote: >But Greg makes a very cogent point----how come the 3 >electors of Wyoming represent more people than 3 of California's 54 >electors? At first the house worked as designed with little disparity, but as population increased, so did the House of Representatives. There came a point when the chambers _physically_ would hold no more representatives and their number became capped. This cap and steadily increasing population has led to the increasing disparity in per capita representation. Reverting to a strictly proportional house would either cause some states to effectively disappear, or result in a congress the size and effectiveness of either the Dem/GOP national conventions or the politburo. Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician -mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Voice-(319)-387-1204 // Fax (319)-387-1076(Dept.office) Thanksgiving: The day all over America that families sit down to dinner at the same moment: halftime.
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