Mr. Beat explains why it's difficult for every U.S. Representative to truly represent their district.

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The U.S. House of Representatives Has Never Been Less Representative

When Congress first met in 1789, there were 59 Representatives in the House of Representatives, and on average, each of those 59 represented around 34,000 people.

In the following decades, American voters often got to choose multiple candidates to represent them in the House, in either at-large elections or in multi-member districts.

And then, there were two notable laws passed by Congress that made the House way less representative.

First, the Apportionment Act of 1842 basically said there had to be congressional districts, each with only one representative. Later the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 capped the number of representatives in the House to 435 members….ALWAYS…NO MATTER HOW BIG THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES EVER GETS.

Today, each House member represents, on average, around 759,000 people.

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