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To: shades who wrote (56300)	3/20/2006 5:46:54 PM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 110194

>>didn't the founders say REPRESENTATION was important The founders wanted the Senate to be representative of the state governments themselves. The 17th Amendment changed this, making the Senate more like an "Upper House" (which the founders explicitly did not desire), not necessarily a change for the better. The US Constitution puts no upper limit on the number of members of the House. It does put a lower limit on the number of members per state: no more than one Representative for every 30,000 people. So the 435 members of the House is due to statute rather than a constitutional dictate. It has been fixed at 435 since 1910, however.