Unequal and Inadequate Representation in The House
Wyoming has a population of 563,000 and has only ONE Congressional Representative. Montana's population is 989,000 and still has but ONE. Representative. According to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, every state is entitled to one representative for every 30,000 people, to whit;
"The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand,.."
So for example, Wyoming should have 18 Representatives, not ONE. Rhode Island would have 35. Montana would be allotted 33. In addition, the seats in the House of Representatives are not being equally apportioned, as you can see by the disparity between Montana and Wyoming. One with 989 Thousand, the other with only 564. That is not my definition of "equal".
Vacancies occur every time a state's population increases according to the census taken. According to the provisions of Article I, Section 2, Clause 4, it is the responsibility of the states to fill all such vacancies by issuing writs of election, with Congressional Districts, not to exceed 30,000 people. The proper definition of the word exceed indicates that the number of constituents are restricted by a limit. The limit is one Representative for every thirty Thousand people.
Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3, clearly mandates that each state shall have one Representative for every 30,000 constituents. Congress passed legislation in 1921, to limit the number of seats in the House of Representative to 435. With the Reapportionment Act of 1929, they made it permanent.
This act was clearly unconstitutional and stands in violation of the right of the states to be equally and adequately represented.
To determine how many Representatives a state is entitled to, simply divide the state's population by 30,000. If this formula was observed, every state and its people would have the proper number of voices in the House to speak for them.
The representatives of the people in the state legislatures are supposed to protect the people from abuse of this kind by Congress. The states alone are responsible for applying for the proper number of seats in the House, but have collectively allowed Congress to dictate to them how many they will receive under the rules of the unconstitutional Reapportionment Act of 1929.
The people in every state should demand that they be allotted the number pf representatives guaranteed to them in the Constitution.
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