05-29-2008, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by JEQuidam
Specifically to this point, Federalist 55 predicted, at the rate of 1 Rep for every 30,000, there would be 400 Representatives by 1840. We have only 35 more than that today.
I believe that 300,000,000 American citizens should be allowed to have more than 435 congressional districts.
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Some illuminating quotes from Federalist No. 55:
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Nothing can be more fallacious than to found our political calculations on arithmetical principles. Sixty or seventy men may be more properly trusted with a given degree of power than six or seven. But it does not follow that six or seven hundred would be proportionally a better depositary.
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in all cases a certain number at least seems to be necessary to secure the benefits of free consultation and discussion, and to guard against too easy a combination for improper purposes; as, on the other hand, the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and the intemperance of a multitude.
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"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary"
-- Ludwig von Mises
Last edited by White Fox; 05-29-2008 at 11:50 AM.
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