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According to the text of that Wikipedia article, Article One would have no effect on the present Congress. "nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons" means that each representative must represent at least 50k people; the smallest congressional district (Rhode Island's 1st, at 527,000 people) exceeds that by a factor of ten.



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