1600 Congressional Representatives.

The best form of respresentation that we have in the US Government is the House of Representatives. It has been occupied by 435 members for the last 100 years. At the time, our population was less than 100 million people. The number of house members grew before 1912 based on population growth.

The Representatives have more power when the population grows without an increase of Congress members. If we had 1000 Reps, our voice would be louder. They would feel the pressure of us voting them out of office and listen to what we want.

I believe the ideal government is best displayed at http://www.directrep.org Dave Robinson, the creator of that site, thinks that there should be hundreds of Representatives for you to vote in to position. Each Rep would have a voting power based on how many supporters they get to vote. It would not be representation based on location. It would instead support what your beliefs are. This is how we could rid the House of corrupt politicians.

For the time being, we need more Representatives. Please find and contact your Congress Representative and Senator and let them know that we need more Congress members (http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt).

The last Article of the Constitution that has not been ratified reads:

After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.

At this same rate, we would have about 1600 Representatives serving about 190,000 people per district. That is more realistic. Our founders, despite living in a very different time than present, knew what they were doing. It's time we listened and implemented the ideas that are still around today.