Should Democrats push for ratification of the Congressional Apportionment Amendment?
For those who don’t know, of the Bill of Rights originally had 12 articles, with 11 of them being ratified (amendments 1 to 10 and 27). This amendment would require one representative for every 50,000 people, and does not require congressional action since it was passed by the first Congress, nor does it have an expiration date.
This would balloon the house to either 1700 representatives to 6628 depending on how you interpret an apparent math error. Currently 14 states have ratified the amendment, and Democrats fully control 11. After that another 13 states would be needed for ratification.
How would this affect gerrymandering? Would this break the two party system? Would this shift power in the house from rural to urban areas? Do they need to rent a baseball stadium to do any votes in the house or for the state of the union?