[JerseyanExile]

If we went back to such small Congressional districts, then there would be well over 10,000 congressman. You think it’s difficult for congress to work on anything now, try giving it the population of a large town. Even the parliament of India, the largest legislative body in the world, representing over a billion people, only has about 800 members.

[Jacquerie]

One of the first complaints of Anti-Federalists at the Ratifying Conventions of 1787-1789 was lack of assured representation in Congress. 1:30,000 was deemed adequate, but the Constitution specified “no more than” 1:30,000. We are well over ten times that number and suffer for it.

An aristocratic House of a few, out of touch members who use the perks of office to secure their lavish benefits was precisely what they feared, and is exactly what we have today.