This is something that the members of the Tea party and the 9/12 project and all Americans should look into.
Article I – The Legislative Branch Note
Section 1 – The Legislature
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2 – The House
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
(Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.) (The previous sentence in parentheses was modified by the 14th Amendment, section 2.) 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; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five and Georgia three.
As of this minute this part of the constitution with the 14th amendment included is not being followed. The discrepancies between the numbers of citizens and the number of their representatives are not minor and therefore cannot be constitutional.
Consider; As of the 2000 census California had a population of 33,871,648 and was awarded 53 seats in the U.S. house. 1 for every 639,087 persons compared to Montana 1 for every 902,195, South Dakota 1 in 754,844. In fact it takes 18 States with a population of 37,680,237 to equal the 53 representatives which means in real terms almost 4 million people are not being heard on the federal level in just 18 States
How I know already that lawyers and politicians will argue that the representatives have to be apportioned according to the pop. in each state and this is the cause for the discrepancy. But what the constitutions says is “The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.” It does not say chosen within each State. The qualifier for the choosing of representatives in this article at that time is until the census can be taken. The way it breaks down is if you live in one of four States CA,TX, NY, FL, you have representation of 1 in every 645 thousand, the other 46 it’s 1 in 710 thousand. This is a vital issue and one of the most important reasons how the “voice of the people” is being perverted.