Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma...
by crooked-v on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:42PM
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You may be interested to hear that those limits in the House of Representatives are actually entirely artificial because of a measure passed in 1929 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Rule), and that there's an ongoing effort to increase the number so that each more closely reflects their constituents (https://twitter.com/uncapthehouse).
Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma...
by giantg2 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:49PM
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Yeah, I was aware of that. As the representation goes up (number of voting members) the efficiency/effectiveness tends to go down. Seems like a lose-lose scenario. I think a better scenario is to follow the original intent of the 10th ammendment and leave the states to provide most of the laws (smaller populations should result in better representation). Sadly it seems that just about anything can be shoehorned into the federal perview with the right judge. For example, growing your own wheat, on your own land, for you own consumption can be restricted by the federal government because the fact that you no longer have to buy your wheat impacts the interstate commerce of the wheat market.
I agree that representation is lacking. I can't get an intelligent response from my reps, if I even get a response at all.