The 1 to 30,000 Amendment Petition

The following is available at Petitions Online and has background with this document:

United States House of Representatives Proportion Amendment

Section 1.
Article 1, Section 2 shall be amended from: "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative;"

To: "The Number of Representatives shall be one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative;"


Section 2.
The House of Representatives shall have no personal staff. House Committee and other Staff for maintaining the House is limited to the size of that of the 109th Congress.


Section 3.
The House of Representatives member offices that have direct and secure communications between them shall be considered as part of the physical House of Representatives.


Section 4.
This Amendment shall take effect in by the second Congress after the Passage of this Amendment and shall have power to enact this with appropriate legislation to facilitate this Amendment.