If you were to create a bicameral congress TODAY, from scratch…and one was based on the federal concept of equal representation per state (50 times 2, regardless of the state’s population) and the other was based on representation based on an equal division of seats based on population (with each state guaranteed at least 1), how many people would you think to be ideal number of population per district? When we created 435, each would have been a bit over 200,000. These days, it’s over 800,000.
This can’t be apolitical, but 435 isn’t in the Constitution…it’s codified from around 1915, when our population was around 100 million. More representatives makes sense, and it would nudge things more in the favor of the larger states…