Comments on Advance Indiana™: Census Results By Congressional District

You read and interpret this clause incorrectly. Y...

2011-02-11T20:49:51.597-05:00

You read and interpret this clause incorrectly. You'd like, and interpret the clause to mean that "every 30,000 people are entitled to a Representative." But the clause just sets a ceiling: there cannot be more than one Representative for every 30,000 people.

Therefore: assume we have about 300,000,000 people. The Constitution prevents us from having more than 10,000 Representatives. Nothing more.

Cato says: "They are just openly ignoring th...

2011-02-11T02:36:20.924-05:00

Cato says:
"They are just openly ignoring the Constitution."

Melyssa says:
"Not for long"

It's getting increasingly more difficult for them to get away with it.

Gary, thanks for being such an awesome tattle-tail with a long memory and documentation!

The Constitution provides for one Representative f...

2011-02-10T21:47:29.078-05:00

The Constitution provides for one Representative for each 30,000 people, and that passage has never been amended.

They are just openly ignoring the Constitution.

Article 1, Sec. 2: ...The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative...