The overarching intent of the adoption of the Reapportionment Act of 1929 was to limit the political influence, in perpetuity, of large dense population centers in the US which were at the time increasingly populated by immigrants, lower classes, and citizens of color. By permanently restricting the total number of House members to 435, each member of the house, as populations increased, have increasingly larger numbers of people they represent. The Act also allowed for the states to have sole power of apportionment, rather than it being determined at the federal level as it had been prior to 1929. If we repealed Reapportionment and enacted Article the First, we would restore voting powers to the people of the US and provide more just representation of every community.



