Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represent 300M Americans
&gt; The framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights intended that the total population of Congressional districts never exceed 50 to 60 thousand. Currently, the average population size of the districts is nearly 700,000 and, consequently, the principle of proportionally equitable representation has been abandoned.<p>Non sequitur, and in the first paragraph.  I mean, yes, if we had more districts, you could get closer to exactly equal population per representative, but a difference of a factor of two in a few districts is not an &quot;abandonment&quot; of the principle.  It&#x27;s the principle not working perfectly, which is perhaps not ideal, but is far less end-of-our-democracy than this tries to make it sound.<p>And if we did expand the House to 6,000 members, what would we get?  We&#x27;d get 1000 self-important committees, or we&#x27;d get more members per committee, or both.  Can you imagine the impeachment hearings if the committee had 500 members, each demanding their 5 minutes to grandstand with each witness?