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@FreiceMedia The starting point to save or reimagine the American Dream begins with a campaign to #UncapTheHouse. If every American would read, contemplate, digest the #OriginalFirstAmendment, we could reissue the dream of meaningful representation, introduce myriad new voices to democracy.
@LibArtsNdCrafts #ProportionalRepresentation is by definition the #OriginalFirstAmendment. If only conservatives, self-serving faux-servatives, and all citizens were raising reading & debating the founding documents: Federalist Papers, Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, whole Constitution
@Joshbocanegra @lindyli When we #UncapTheHouse, the great diversity of our nation unravels false, destructive gerrymandering that prevents us from updating the engine of our democracy.
Return us to the discussion of the #OriginalFirstAmendment that capped representation at 50k:1. Best campaign reform.
@melaniesdavis By the time nearly everyone alive now was born, we grew up memorizing that the House is apportioned at 435 across all 50 states & territories despite the #OriginalFirstAmendment (passed both Houses; missed ratification by 1 state) capped Representation to 50,000 US citizens.
@LopezResists @AmericanHeathe1 The #OriginalFirstAmendment as proposed by Madison mandated a maximum of 50,000 citizens: 1 House Rep.
In Congress of 1833, we had 240 House Reps for a US population of 14 million of which 2 million were enslaved.
#UncapTheHouse
@ChicheeWW @EvaSalvagni @HouseGOP Why do we allow Congress artificially to suppress the healthy representation of our voices and our choices?
The very reason for the American Revolution was #NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation.
That’s why the #OriginalFirstAmendment capped representation at 50k citizens: 1 Rep.
The Youth of Our Nation Is an Opportunity:
This nation must again look to its roots to jumpstart its future: explore the #OriginalFirstAmendment, contemplate the imperative of #meaningfulrepresentation as the reason it broke away from monarchy for #selfrule, #revolutionofthought
@DrGiggles19 @reedgalen I would start with the most meaningful change, existing legislation to #UncapTheHouse from the artificial 435 Members to a reasonable formula predicated on population ratios as intended by the #OriginalFirstAmendment.
@mehdirhasan @ajlayon One more reason why the movement to save our democracy must be structural reform: fix the math of representation along the lines of the #OriginalFirstAmendment, which passed both Houses but was not ratified (missed by one state at the time). #UncapTheHouse
@Brezia_Tomson @FranWongWrites The fact that the #OriginalFirstAmendment passed both Houses of Congress but was not ratified by 3/4 of the states, missing the mark only by one state, remains immaterial to a Reapportionment Bill tomorrow or the following week. Call your Representative to #UncapTheHouse.
@ghoti00 @ghostofJmadison I speak to neighbors daily.
Weekly I explain the history of the #OriginalFirstAmendment & the travesty of the Congress of 1911 when we first apportioned the House at 435.
We have to educate citizens and continue our own. That’s all I know.
@DoctorHenryCT @mssgthrpy1 A strong way of connecting representatives to constituents rather than lobbyists or donors is to push to #UncapTheHouse from its arbitrary 435 to something meaningfully related to present population as intended by the #OriginalFirstAmendment.
@danacat1 @MattHughes404 @AvengerResister We are overdue to #UncapTheHouse.
The #OriginalFirstAmendment capped representation ratios at 50,000 citizens to 1 House Representative once the US reached a threshold population. The nation started at 30k:1.
@Jen_resists2022 @laraswrld @MichelleObama To truly overwhelm banal “more speech” with healthy #goodspeech demands diversity of voices who intelligently, cogently & caringly represent meaningfully-sized districts somewhere between 50,000 (Madison’s #OriginalFirstAmendment) to 250,000 max per House Representative.
@LisaMAllison2 @YoungCoDems @SilentAmuse How many Americans are even aware that the #OriginalFirstAmendment passed both Houses of Congress but was only ratified by 8 instead of 9 of 13 states? Would have mandated 1 House Rep: max 50,000 citizens to ensure no one famous serves the House. #RepresentationMatters
@mama___karma @catblackcanada That’s why we need Americans to learn more about the #OriginalFirstAmendment and push our legislators to #UncapTheHouse from the #AccidentalOligarchy of 435 Members to a rational relationship to constituents. Increase & #DiversifyCongress to decrease the impact of man-babies.
@richard_ryan5 @michaelharriot The engine to our democratic republic is described in #FederalistPapers 54-58 quite cogently by Madison: the House is not meant for famous people, it is meant to reflect all aspects of our society from a waiter to a band roadie.
Read about the #OriginalFirstAmendment
Oligarchies Design Oligopolies:
We reinforce mediocrity.
#UncapTheHouse to bring more voices into the #PoliticalEconomy.
#RepresentationWorks.
435 is absurd.
Research the #OriginalFirstAmendment.
Meaningful representation creates a valid foundation for policy negotiation.
@AshaRangappa_ Broken Math of Representation:
Madison understood the clear & present danger in the math of the House proposing the #OriginalFirstAmendment mandating population ratio to number of Representatives capping out at 1 Member per 50,000 US citizens Constitutionally.
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