Founders Intent was 1 congressperson per 30,000 people to comprise a district, not 700,000
It would be much harder to gerrymander smaller districts effectively :D
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
5 points (100.0% liked)
U.S. News
2499 readers
156 users here now
News about and pertaining to the United States and its people.
Please read what's functionally the mission statement before posting for the first time. We have a narrower definition of news than you might be accustomed to.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Post the original source of information as the link.
- If there is any Nazi imagery in the linked story, mark your post NSFW.
- Advocating violence is not allowed on Beehaw in general.
- If there is a paywall, provide an archive link in the body.
- Post using the original headline; edits for clarity (as in providing crucial info a clickbait hed omits) are fine.
- Social media is not a news source.
For World News, see the News community.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Absolutely
Probably, but how would the federal government work with 11,600 Representatives in the House?
I mean, can Congress function less efficiently than now?
The UK manages with 650 members and China with 2977.
In the UK, the backbenchers (the nobodies of Parliament) can assert a lot of power. Case in point, the revolving door of Conservative Prime Ministers. All the changes to the Conservative Prime Minister was because of the backbenchers had a lot of power to cause problems. In essence, the Conserative MPs actually did what the Westminister style of government is meant. The Prime Minister is only the Prime Minister cause they have the support of the House.
In theory, more US House Reps would be able to act as the check on the President's powers like Congress is suppose to do. The more reps they are, the harder it would be for the President to entact their agenda. Since there would be people to convince.
Could maybe ad another layer that selects a smaller group from among them.