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I'm assuming it's working as intended.
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The Senate is. The House is not. The artificial limit of 435 set in 1911 has turned it into a pseudo-Senate and done a lot of harm to this country. With the same population representation as then, we should have around 1600 Representatives now.
A lot of the issues we currently have in Congress simply wouldn't exist with the House operating as it was designed.
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I end up having this conversation often because I believe the Congress Apportionment Act is where we really went off the rails. With our technology, I believe we could handle 1600 representatives and they wouldn't need to be full-time careers. Would congress ever agree to repeal the act?
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To benefit Southern slave states and sparsely populated rural states? Check.
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Exactly. It's capitalism. The land is more valuable than the people on it.
(This is my observation, not my personal opinion)
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