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Question on the (actual) 1st amendment
Posted on: August 25, 2025 at 12:41:49 CT
FIJItiger MU
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The actual 1st proposed amendment was never ratified, thus the 3rd became what we now know as the 1st Amendment. The original amendment was about assigning congressional representation based on population, requiring originally one representative for every 30k constituents (since revised to 50k). At current US population this would result in roughly 1,700 being required.
11 states previously ratified this in the 1700s. It requires 38 state ratifications to become an amendment, so 27 more. All of the original ratifiers were on the east coast because that is all the states there were at that point.
Given how broken and nonfunctional congress is, I’m interested in whether that is a viable path for improvement. If 27 addional states that would considerably benefit in representation due to their relative outsized populations moved forward with this would the original 11 that now have relatively small populations need to re-ratify?
Edited by FIJItiger at 12:45:00 on 08/25/25
11 states previously ratified this in the 1700s. It requires 38 state ratifications to become an amendment, so 27 more. All of the original ratifiers were on the east coast because that is all the states there were at that point.
Given how broken and nonfunctional congress is, I’m interested in whether that is a viable path for improvement. If 27 addional states that would considerably benefit in representation due to their relative outsized populations moved forward with this would the original 11 that now have relatively small populations need to re-ratify?
Edited by FIJItiger at 12:45:00 on 08/25/25
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Question on the (actual) 1st amendment - FIJItiger MU - 8/25 12:41:49