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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by JEQuidam
Yakk, I greatly appreciate all of your comments.
I have actually never discussed the transition. I believe that this will be implemented over two or three decades. For example, the 2020 apportionment would increase the size of the House to 3,000; then to 6,000 in 2030; and then achieve 1:50,000 by 2040.
OK, that's hypothetical, but I agree that the transition to a truly representative House should not be implemented too rapidly. The important thing is that this be implemented, without equivocation, according to a firm schedule which is not subject to subsequent political shenanigans.
Cynthetiq, States voting as a block??? That is a phoney argument. It's extremely unlikely that all the Representatives within any single state will ever vote as a block, let alone across a "block" of states. The representaties will be urban, rural, industrial, conservative, liberal, libertarian, green, etc., etc.,
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I didn't say it was a legitimate argument. It is the reasoning from what I recall that there is the Senate since that's the very rationale that it was designed to prohibit.
But I still don't see there being much difference especially with your statements of "urban, rural, industrial, conservative, liberal, libertarian, green, etc., etc." that the current 435 don't represent adequately.
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