Thursday, October 15, 2009

Unrepresented America

Here's a Novel Idea from Jonah Goldberg

09/12/09

We Need a BIGGER House [click to read]. Yes, You read him right.

"In Federalist No. 55, James Madison defended the proposed Constitution’s apportionment clause despite its widespread unpopularity. The chief complaints, according to Madison, were that such a small Congress would become an “unsafe depository of the public interests”; that the districts would be too large and diverse for any politician to “possess a proper knowledge of the local circumstances of their numerous constituents”; and that such a tiny House would have the net result of attracting elitist types whose aim would be the “permanent elevation of the few on the depression of the many.”

ht/Drew

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