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end gerrymandering

Created by B.R. on July 31, 2014

This petition is to require Congress to enact legislation creating a House District Commission for each of the fifty states, thus ending gerrymandering and inequality among people seeking office as a member of the House of Representatives.

Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution reads: Representatives … shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers … . The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct.”

Article I, Section 4 reads: The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the

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