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P.M. Carpenter's avatar

There's a wonky idea floating around that suggests the House should be expanded up to 750 seats. These wonks are real wankers. If anything, the People would be better served if the House were skeletalized to about 100 seats: two to three members for authentically populated states and one for each red wasteland. There is nothing in the Constitution that fixes the number of House seats at 435, that number was Congress's fatuous innovation in the halcyon year of 1929. The Senate would require a Constitutional makeover, but its number, too, should be reduced: two senators for each aforementioned populated state and one ex-con for all of Dixie.

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William's avatar

Yeah, a hundred seats sounds like the Senate which is the least democratic body.

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sld's avatar

The South is risible again!

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Howid's avatar

Nice dream

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