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« Reply #25 on: March 26, 2004, 08:32:12 am »
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I have a better proposal.

Subtract 10 Congressional seats from Texas and Florida.  Divide the number of seats Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia have in two...  and give all of them to Rhode Island.

Let's see....no
I actually like the thought of 34 Reps from Rhodie. Smiley And that of having half a representatives from Alabama and Georgia around!The legs and head represent Georgia, the torso Alabama!
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« Reply #26 on: March 26, 2004, 09:34:00 am »
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Good idea Harry Smiley
Over here we have over 650 seats... and more are added every 10 or so years.
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« Reply #27 on: March 26, 2004, 10:01:07 am »
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The elections are already a mess as they are! If you add hundreds of more representatives imagine what the mess would be!
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« Reply #28 on: March 26, 2004, 11:20:06 am »
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I strongly support adding Representatives at the state legislative level - using New Hampshire as the model.  But I'm weary of having any more than 435 nattering nabobs calling themselves "Congressmen."
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« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2004, 01:48:57 pm »
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Good idea Harry Smiley
Over here we have over 650 seats... and more are added every 10 or so years.

We have 349 seats...and a population about the size of Georgia. I think that's a record in number of seats per capita, but I'm not sure.
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« Reply #30 on: March 26, 2004, 01:56:39 pm »
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Good idea Harry Smiley
Over here we have over 650 seats... and more are added every 10 or so years.

We have 349 seats...and a population about the size of Georgia. I think that's a record in number of seats per capita, but I'm not sure.

Vanutu has 200,000 people or so with 52 members parlament
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« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2004, 02:09:48 pm »
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Good idea Harry Smiley
Over here we have over 650 seats... and more are added every 10 or so years.

We have 349 seats...and a population about the size of Georgia. I think that's a record in number of seats per capita, but I'm not sure.

Vanutu has 200,000 people or so with 52 members parlament

Well, if we're counting THOSE... Wink
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« Reply #32 on: March 26, 2004, 02:17:33 pm »
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Good idea Harry Smiley
Over here we have over 650 seats... and more are added every 10 or so years.

We have 349 seats...and a population about the size of Georgia. I think that's a record in number of seats per capita, but I'm not sure.

Vanutu has 200,000 people or so with 52 members parlament

Well, if we're counting THOSE... Wink

well I bet you do count Iceland - 280,000 people with 63 members!
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« Reply #33 on: March 26, 2004, 02:18:15 pm »
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Good idea Harry Smiley
Over here we have over 650 seats... and more are added every 10 or so years.

We have 349 seats...and a population about the size of Georgia. I think that's a record in number of seats per capita, but I'm not sure.

Vanutu has 200,000 people or so with 52 members parlament

Well, if we're counting THOSE... Wink

well I bet you do count Iceland - 280,000 people with 63 members!

Of course I do. Smiley Iceland is a great country. Smiley I admit defeat...
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« Reply #34 on: March 26, 2004, 02:26:15 pm »
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Good idea Harry Smiley
Over here we have over 650 seats... and more are added every 10 or so years.

We have 349 seats...and a population about the size of Georgia. I think that's a record in number of seats per capita, but I'm not sure.

Vanutu has 200,000 people or so with 52 members parlament

Well, if we're counting THOSE... Wink

well I bet you do count Iceland - 280,000 people with 63 members!

Of course I do. Smiley Iceland is a great country. Smiley I admit defeat...

that's rare....

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« Reply #35 on: March 26, 2004, 02:27:00 pm »
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Have you ever seen a picture of the Althing before? It's a smallish room with little tables!
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« Reply #36 on: March 26, 2004, 02:28:50 pm »
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Have you ever seen a picture of the Althing before? It's a smallish room with little tables!
Oldest Parliament in the World BTW Smiley
I know it's the oldest but never seen it
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« Reply #37 on: March 26, 2004, 03:44:38 pm »
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Why 475000? Why not a nice even 500000? Also Canada has 308 seats for 33 million people, so about 1 rep to every 110000. That's pretty good rep.
 
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« Reply #38 on: March 26, 2004, 07:47:01 pm »
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I wonder why republcans do not offer do gave congressional districts by county. 2439 members with at least 60% republicans

That would be fantastic!  And since there would be so many they would have to just stay at home in their counties and vote online.
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« Reply #39 on: March 26, 2004, 07:48:32 pm »
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Good idea Harry Smiley
Over here we have over 650 seats... and more are added every 10 or so years.

We have 349 seats...and a population about the size of Georgia. I think that's a record in number of seats per capita, but I'm not sure.

Vanutu has 200,000 people or so with 52 members parlament

Well, if we're counting THOSE... Wink

well I bet you do count Iceland - 280,000 people with 63 members!

Of course I do. Smiley Iceland is a great country. Smiley I admit defeat...

that's rare....

Smiley

That's b/c I'm so seldom defeated... Wink
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« Reply #40 on: March 27, 2004, 03:34:46 am »
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Good idea Harry Smiley
Over here we have over 650 seats... and more are added every 10 or so years.

We have 349 seats...and a population about the size of Georgia. I think that's a record in number of seats per capita, but I'm not sure.

Vanutu has 200,000 people or so with 52 members parlament

Well, if we're counting THOSE... Wink

well I bet you do count Iceland - 280,000 people with 63 members!

Of course I do. Smiley Iceland is a great country. Smiley I admit defeat...

that's rare....

Smiley

That's b/c I'm so seldom defeated... Wink
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« Reply #41 on: March 27, 2004, 02:53:04 pm »
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Why 475000? Why not a nice even 500000? Also Canada has 308 seats for 33 million people, so about 1 rep to every 110000. That's pretty good rep.
 
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475,000 just seemed like a nice number.  Each state is over that number, while WY has less than 500,000.
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« Reply #42 on: March 27, 2004, 11:08:57 pm »
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Why 475000? Why not a nice even 500000? Also Canada has 308 seats for 33 million people, so about 1 rep to every 110000. That's pretty good rep.
 
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475,000 just seemed like a nice number.  Each state is over that number, while WY has less than 500,000.

The logical choice would then be to set the size for apportionment to most closely match the population of the WY since it has the least. That would create 570 seats to be apportioned, each with approximately 494 K people.
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« Reply #43 on: March 28, 2004, 08:30:17 am »
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New York should have 19 millions representatives, one for each person.
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