Blog Stage 2: Do we need more State Representatives on Capitol Hill?

This article in the New York Times is important because it
mentions the decline of citizens concerns in the House of
Representatives. Congress is supposed to make adjustments
to the number of representatives every decade and it's not
increasing proportionally to our expanding population.
This disparity is a burden to representatives, constituents
and voters. As it stands each state is allocated one
representative regardless of it's population. In England
and Germany, both vastly smaller countries, the representative
presence in Parliament is larger than the United States.
Current congressional calculations allow for an additional
state representative for every 700,000 voters. This ratio
is not balanced for our cumbersome political process. How can
one representative make themselves available to 700,000 people.
It seems as though many voters would not get their chance to
legitimately be heard by the representative or congress.

This week in federal court an attempt to increase the number of
representatives is going to be heard in Mississippi. I think
this measure would encourage voter participation. Having
adequate representation allows for more topics to be discussed
and more efforts toward change to take place in our democracy.