{"id":26412,"date":"2023-03-06T22:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=26412"},"modified":"2023-03-06T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:46:50","slug":"opinion-the-house-was-supposed-to-grow-with-population-it-didnt-lets-fix-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=26412","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The House was supposed to grow with population. It didn\u2019t. Let\u2019s fix that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/GLEJ6L7LRFDGLPWX6NRUCXOUCM.jpg&amp;w=1440\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"129\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The framers never wanted members to represent such large districts \u2014 and with good reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/02\/28\/danielle-allen-democracy-reform-congress-house-expansion\/\">Opinion | The House was supposed to grow with population. It didn\u2019t. Let\u2019s fix that.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>how large are the similar legislative bodies of other large governments? russia? china? both bad examples, ; india? brazil<br>even if the usa whyen to 1 rep per 100k, that&#8217;s 6 or 7x more reps, so the house have to hold2500-3500 memers? can it be done?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada has a population of about 39 million and a House of Commons with 338 seats, resulting in ~115k persons per representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK has a population of about 68 million and a House of Commons with 650 seats, resulting in ~105K persons per representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The framers never wanted members to represent such large districts \u2014 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[58,57],"class_list":["post-26412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-politics","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}