Published on May 8, 2007 By danielost In Politics
as of 2000 the people of this country are no longer being represented in the house as the founding fathers wanted.

there is one fewer reps. than there is supposed to be. becouse the government decided sometime ago to put an artifical cieling to the number of reps. which we exceded by one in 2000.

now this is my idea only

we take the states and divide them between two areas(insert proper legal term here).
and you split the reps in two houses each over an area. there would of course be a governer(insert proper name here) over each area.

the federal government would consist of the president, the senate, two houses of reps. at the federal lvl still considered one house. as has been pointed out in another post. with the modern tech this would be no problem to handle. and the supreme court

these areas would take over the job that the federal govenment has have keeping peace between the states, keeping the federal highways open and operating, adding new ones as happens now.

and the federal government could go back to doing the job it was designed to do. represent us in the international scene.

this would also allow us to add states when and if other countries like mexico and canada wanted to join us.(just examplies)

of course these two nations if added would become a new area.


but at the moment if puerto rico voted to become a state(they do this ever so often) which states would give up some of their reps to puerto rico

now please attack the idea not the person
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on May 08, 2007
now please attack the idea not the person


let me be the 1st to say, as someone who has been pretty tough on ya the last few weeks, that we do need more of that. well, less attacking the person anyway. ideas, especially those expressed in good faith, really don't need to be "attacked" but i get your point.

and it's a good point.

i'm not sure however how into the idea of adding layers of governement to solve problems of disconnect. i'm also not sure how constitutional it is to reorganize the usa as you suggest. the constitution is quite specific about the way we do these things. changing them, in the manner that you suggest would essentially mean a constitutional convention..which is pretty radical. but lots of good people have suggested it in the past for various reasons, most well intentioned ones.

federalists, ie, states rights advocates, would argue something along the lines that the constitution does indeed already provide for such an arrangement as you suggest. but the states have allowed the fed to overpower them and have assumed duties and responsibilities, that as you suggest, belong to the states.

as far as the statehoods of puerto rico and various canadian and mexican lands go, i'm not too sure about that as well. again, the constitution does provide for a clear path to statehood that has been more or less followed thru for all the states beyond the orig 13, who had their own way...by signing on to the constitution that set up the procedure.

i do believe there is something in the works about dc getting proper representation in congress,,,finally...or something...i'm not sure. i have to admit, in all the other news happening, i only caught a snippet a while back and never saw the full story.

and dan, i like the fact that you are bringing your ideas to the table. i might not agree with them, and in the future, you might not either. or we could all come around to your way of thinking...who knows...but again, the most important thing is that they are YOUR ideas. way to think!


on May 08, 2007
i like the fact that you are bringing your ideas to the table


it is just a rough idea needs work and building on

and the states need to get their rights back either way
on May 08, 2007
remember all the founding fathers did in 1776 was compremise