Political power is like pizza. It can be shared by the few or by the many. The larger the number of people at the table, the smaller each person's share will be.
When all of the political power is shared by only 435 Congressional Representatives, they will have virtually all of the power and the people will have none.
To increase the power of the people, it is necessary for us to reduce the size of our Congressional Districts to no more than 50,000. This would effectively transfer the power from the corrupt career politicians who masquerade as public servants back to the people.
To fairly apportion the House of Representatives, we need to divide the population of a state by 50,000. If the quotient is a whole number with a fractional equivalent, the fraction needs to be rounded up or down to the nearest whole number.
So, for example, if the population of a state is 10,000,000 simply divide that number by 50,000 and that state would be entitled to 200 representatives. Simple math. A state with half as many people will be entitled to half as many Representatives. This is what is known as proportional or equal representation,
Apportionment schemes where states are unequally represented violate the principles of equal representation and the theory of one man one vote.
If representation was a gigantic pie to be shared equally by all of the people in a Congressional District the slice being allocated to an individual in a district of 750,000 would be extremely small. If the same pie was divided among 50,000 constituents, each person would have a much larger slice of the political power.
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