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Yes - unless there is only one representative. Article One, Section 2, Clause three states:
- "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. 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. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse [sic] three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three."
A comparison of the numbers for each state then (when the Constitution was ratified) and now shows:
New Hampshire 3=>2
Massachusetts 8=>9
Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations 1=>2
Connecticut 5=>5
New-York 6=>27
New Jersey 4=>12
Pennsylvania 8=>18
Delaware 1=>1
Maryland 6=>8
Virginia 10=>11
North Carolina 5=>13
South Carolina 5=>7
Georgia 3=>14
Obviously most of the number have changed. Note that the changes only occur after each census, which only occurs every 10 years, so in between each state is protected from having any decrease.
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∙ 13y agoNo, there are 2 senators per state, and it has been that way since the Constitution was created. This was because smaller states wanted equal say as bigger states, so a two house Congress was made - The House of Representatives, which is based off of population (the more populous the state, the more representatives) and the Senate, which has 2 senators per state.
The number of reps in the House O' Reps changes every 10 years, since the Census is taken every decade.
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∙ 11y agoIt would be impossible due to section 1 of the constitution. You could, in theory, amend the constitution, but that is not likely to happen. In order to increase your decease the number of senator, 3 fourths of the states must approved, and that rarely happens.
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∙ 9y agoNo. The number of senators from each state is fixed at two under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution. The number of representatives changes from time-to-time if the population of the state goes up and down but the number of senators always remains the same.
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∙ 14y agothis question is on a history worksheet of mine trying to figure it out cant find it in book. im to lazy to try harder
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∙ 12y agoNo
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