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What was the original ratio of US Representatives to the citizens in the state?
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∙ 13y ago
the original ratio is 1:3,000
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What was the original ratio of US representatives to citizen in a state?
1:30,000, but every state should have at least one representative
How many representatives per state for 30000 citizens?
Does this question mean 'how many representatives would a state of 30,000 have'? If so, the answer is 1. You can't have less than 1, and the going ratio right now is about 1:650,000.
What is the basis for number of US representatives for each state?
The ratio of each state's population to the population of all the states at the time of the last official census should equal the ratio of the state's Representatives to all the Representatives.
What are elected representatives chosen by state citizens referred as?
legislators
What are state citizens that elect legislative representatives referred to as?
constituents
What is the ratio used to determine the number of house representatives?
The number of voting members of the U. S. House of Representatives has been 435 since March 4, 1913. The only time it is different is between the addition of a new state to the Union and the subsequent reapportionment.
Why does the House of Representatives favor the larger states?
Unlike the Senate, which gives two Senators to every state, the House of Representatives gives a number of representatives to each state, in proportion to the population of that state. So larger states have more representatives. This logically follows from the idea that all citizens are represented equally in a democracy. A million citizens in one state would logically have ten times the representation of a hundred thousand citizens in a smaller state.
What are elected representatives chosen by state citizens called?
constituents
Is the house of representatives only be selected by the state governments?
In the US, the term of house of representatives means the Congressional branch called the House of Representatives. Here, delegates to the House are based on elections by the citizens of a State,
State in which citizens chose representatives to run the government in ancient Rome?
The Roman Republic.
What was the state in which the citizens choose representatives to run the government in Ancient Rome?
It was the Roman Republic
What does the number of representatives each state has to depend on?
Senators are independent of representatives. The number of representatives per state depends on the population of that state. However, there are always two senators for each state no matter what the population size. the number of senators and representatives do not depend on each other.
