At 11:25 11/16/2000 -0600, I wrote: >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. As promised to a friend off-list: fax & figgers: The First Congress had 65 members in the House of Representatives. The membership was capped at 435 in 1911. Population increases since 1911 have caused the increasing inequity. Individual states can have no fewer than one representative, no matter what the population. 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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