Representation Clearly Spelled Out
May I suggest we start by each of us, one human being per state, each with standing in their respective states, challenge their legislatures, through their local state legislative Representative to redraw their congressional district boundaries to circumscribe a limit of 30,000 constituents per district. Thereby assigning one Representative seat to each district in accordance with the directives CLEARLY spelled out in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, whereby;
"The number of Representatives shall not exceed One for every thirty Thousand,.."
The districts should be laid out in a square as much as possible, never to be redrawn in a Gerrymandered way, but rather to remain square inperpetuity. The empty seats shall only be filled with candidates living inside the boundaries of the district seat for which they are running. That needs to be etched in stone without exception.
The states shall then be entitled to THAT number of seats. The state election board will then be required by law to present the correct number of writs of election to fill those seats.
Congress shall then be required to "allot" to each state, the number of seats to which the state is now "entitled".
In Pennsylvania, if this requirement was filled, representation would increase from the paltry 18 we have now, (as of the 2010 Census), to about 426.
Overall Congress would grow from 435 Members to 10,942 Members. That's an increase of over 25 times. That means that each of us is actually getting 1/25th of the Representative to which we are "entitled".
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