Context:
The current appropriation of seats in the House of Representatives is determined by the population in each state.
Article I, Section. 2 of the Constitution:
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 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.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
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This was revised without an amendment to the Constitution in 1929:
The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929
On this date, the House passed the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, fixing the number of Representatives at 435. The U.S. Constitution called for at least one Representative per state and that no more than one for every 30,000 persons. Thus, the size of a state’s House delegation depended on its population. But the founders were vague as to how large future Congresses should be and what method to use to reapportion the House after each federal census. These questions vexed Congress for much of its history as U.S. territories expanded and the population grew. Usually, the House reapportioned itself in a manner that increased, or at least preserved, the representation of most states. Gradually, however, the method for calculating apportionment caused smaller rural states to lose representation to larger urbanized states. A battle erupted between rural and urban factions, causing the House (for the only time in its history) to fail to reapportion itself following the 1920 Census. Signed into law on June 18, 1929, the Permanent Apportionment Act capped House Membership at the level established after the 1910 Census and created a procedure for automatically reapportioning House seats after every decennial census.
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Note that there is no qualification on the status as a citizen, non-citizen or illegal alien. This brings us to the legislation PASSED yesterday in the House of Representatives to add a question to the census on citizenship. If this is passed in the Senate and signed by the illegal president, only citizens will be counted to redistribute House Seats AND the Electoral College. The bill passed by 4 votes:
As the above chart shows, the vote was completely based on party affiliation. This legislation will not be passed in the Senate as Speaker Johnson knows. And it is a certainty that Biden would not sign it whether he was a drugged stupor or in his regular state of dementia.
1. While this should be passed for the 2030 census, this was just a show vote to misdirect the people from the malfeasance of the government’s treason and corruption.
2. The news of Johnson’s vote to remove him was relegated to the dumpster.
3. Many smart people are using this vote to vilify Democrats as either traitors or misrepresenting its passage as a defeat:
This legislation is needed but can be passed anytime before the 2030 election. So the Democrats have been exposed as voting against the interests of the people. And no one is surprised. The Republicans wave the flag knowing that the legislation will not be passed but once again, they “tried”.
Do not let this legislation manipulate you: it is all for show. We know that Congress does not represent the people. We know that Biden’s invasion is only one facet of their plan to steal another election. It is a shame that Mr. Johnson has been relegated from speaker to spokesman selling snake oil.
David DeGerolamo
