For the past several posts, I’ve explored the long history of congressional apportionment in the United States: After looking at all of this, I think one conclusion becomes difficult to avoid, the real issue is not whether the Wyoming Rule is perfect. The real issue is whether an arbitrary cap of 435 representatives still makes […]
Another Supreme Court case that touched on appropriation was the 1992 case, US Department of Commerce et al. v Montana et al. Although this case was not about the total number of representatives in the House, it did review how the apportionment of the 435 was calculated. In the early 1990s, the state of Montana
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