Reapportionment

[Keith Broaders]

The founding fathers understood that the representation in Congress was the foundation of our Constitutional Republic. To insure adequate representation they decided that a census be taken every ten years so that the number of representatives would grow in proportion to the growth of the state's population.

The House of Representatives should be reapportioned every ten years to guarantee adequate representation. 

The Congressional Apportionment Act of 1929 was unconstitutional because it violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment which requires that every person in every state has a right to be equally represented.

Freezing the number of representatives, rather than limiting the size of Congressional Districts violate the principle of proportional representation. In order to comply with the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment every Congressional District in every state needs to be equally apportioned,

Since the smallest district in Wyoming has just 575,000 constituents every size of every district in all of the other states should be limited to the same number.

This initiative would restore equal representation, but it would not fix the problem of inadequate representation.