Commentary On Elections-Part Thirty-Eight

The U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 3, Clause 3, Sentence One and Two reads as follows:

"The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative;"

If the number of federal lower house representatives shall not exceed one for every 30,000, then the number of lower house representatives in each state should not be below one for every 30,000. In other words if the minimum number of population for a member of the U.S. House Of Representatives is 30,000, then the maximum number of population for a member of a state's house of delegates/assemblymen should be 30,000.

In Virginia, the number of delegates would be 285 with this current law. It is currently 100. There are too few delegates in that state's legislative lower house. 300 would be the proper number of delegates for Virginia.

Every state would be required to have a minimum of 100 delegates/assembly in the state's legislative lower house. The number of state delegates/assemblymen would match the nearest highest figure that ends with two zeros once the state's population figure is divided by 30,000. To explain this, California has forty million people. Divide its population by 30,000 and that figure is 1333. This figure will then be adjusted to match the nearest highest figure that ends with two zeros. The final figure will be 1400 and that will be the number of state assemblymen that California will have in its lower house.

Each delegate/assemblymen has to be elected by its own distinct electorate to represent its own distinct state delegate/assembly district. Two or more delegates should not be allowed to be elected by the same electorate nor should they be allowed to represent the same people.

The foregoing must be incorporated as federal law to maintain Representarian ideals.