> Any Constitutional "originalist" who thinks that the House of Representatives is just fine at 435 reps is a hypocrite. At one per 34,000, we need about ten thousand reps to meet the standards of representation that the founders thought was reasonable.
How is that hypocritical? The Constitution says "The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative". The fact that we're not near the upper bound doesn't make it unreasonable. If they thought a reasonable representation would have required some lower bound other than 1 per state, they would have written that.
How is that hypocritical? The Constitution says "The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative". The fact that we're not near the upper bound doesn't make it unreasonable. If they thought a reasonable representation would have required some lower bound other than 1 per state, they would have written that.