{"id":265,"date":"2020-05-21T04:09:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2020-05-22T03:04:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T03:04:32","slug":"why-is-the-size-of-congress-increased-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Size of Congress Increased So Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(123,247,152,0.2)&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_menu _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|10px||10px|false|false&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_module=&#8221;228&#8243;][\/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Rationale:<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The size of Congress has been increased to provide a fixed maximum number of citizens represented by each representative. This allows ordinary citizens to have more reasonable access to their representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Comment Instructions&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;5px|10px|5px|10px|false|false&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_module=&#8221;479&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Comments are welcome below. All comments must be respectfully written and not contain misinformation or fallacious reasoning. We welcome thoughtful dialogue of differences.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_comments _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][\/et_pb_comments][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(123,247,152,0.2)&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_menu _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|10px||10px|false|false&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_module=&#8221;228&#8243;][\/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;] Rationale: The size of Congress has been increased to provide a fixed maximum number of citizens represented by each representative. This allows ordinary citizens to have more reasonable access to their representatives. [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Comment Instructions&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;5px|10px|5px|10px|false|false&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_module=&#8221;479&#8243;] Comments are welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}