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Learn about the relationship between Freedom and Legislative District Sizes democracy in the United States resulting from Congress’ longstanding practice of limiting the number of congressional districts despite the that the total number of congressional districts was increased every ten years from 1790 to 1910 (with a single exception). These increases remained that size ever since (except for a four-year period when it was temporarily increased to 437 after the admission of Alaska and In order to restore the House to the citizenry, our total number of federal Representatives will have to be increased substantially. Achieving this goal is essential to extending the ground of public confidence in our government and ensuring the beneficent ends of its Q1: Aren’t the districts’ populations supposed to grow along         with the general population? Q2: How did the number of Representatives become fixed at 435?   Q3: What is wrong with super-sized Congressional districts?   Q6: What about the diverse views and values of the American people?   Q7: Wouldn’t more Representatives mean a bigger government?   Q8: Even with reduced federal expenditures, wouldn’t it be         too costly to add all these Representatives? Q9: How would that many Representatives get anything done?   Q10: How do all those Representatives fit into one building?   Q11: Would Congress voluntarily increase the number of Representatives? Q14: Who would advocate and support the creation of such an amendment? Q15: Who would oppose the creation of such an amendment?   constituent monitoring of legislators and enhance legislators’ representation of constituent interests, most of the framers of the A2: Because Congress pas*ed a bill in 1929 to do so, as described by one Representative at the time: > “The bill seeks to prescribe a national policy under which the > membership of the House shall never exceed 435 unless Congress, by