Ignorance is not “bliss.”  Unfortunately, our education system does not enlighten us as to why our system of government no longer works for the common citizen.  If we want the public educated to the truth that impacts them, don’t trust the establishment—we need to do it.

Our federal and state governments are in the form of Constitutional Republics with its legislatures under the control of elected representatives. If our elected representatives are not accountable to us, but to others, our system will not work.

District size is absolutely critical to the quality and allegiance of its representatives both to it Constitution and the will of its citizenry.

In regard to the House of Representatives, at the time of our nation’s founding, in the 1789 legislature, it was determined (see Article the First) that a population of 50,000 was the maximum limit for a representative district in order for its elected representative to be accountable to the constituency.  At that time, the average House district was 30,000 population.  Currently, each House district exceeds 750,000 population and is increasing each year with no end in sight.  

Originally, U.S. Senators were selected by each state legislature, and its elected representatives were from much smaller districts than 30,000 within each state.  Once the 17th Amendment was ratified, it was changed, such that each Senator was selected by the entire state population of voters.

When California first became a state, its 1849 constitution provided one assembly member for approximately every 2,500 residents, and one senator for every 5,000 residents.  In 1879, its constitution was revised, increasing the number of assembly seats to 80 and senate to 40, where it remains to this day.  In 1879, there was one Assembly seat for approximately every 10,500 residents, and one senate seat for every 21,000 residents.   Today, California has one assembly seat for every 491,000 residents and one senate seat for every 982,000 residents.

Power brokers know that the larger the district size for a representative, the less is known of a candidate other than what is presented through the various media—much of which can be more fabrication than reality. Thus, the larger the election district, the more power shifts to the special interest power brokers.

I have written in the past about root issues and fallout issues.  When it comes to the issue of our Federal government, the root issues that have undermined our representative system are:   1) Corruption of Article the First, 2) Creation of lobbying industry, 3) Apportionment Act of 1911 (which froze the size of the House of Representatives at 435 members), 4) the 17th Amendment, 5) Creation of State Primary elections to select candidates, 6) Creation of the Federal Reserve (which gave the Constitutional authority of Congress over monetary policy to private banking interests), and 7) the whole “progressive” concept of a living constitution that facilitated redefining and inventing Federal prerogatives by circumventing the Article V amendment process. And finally, 8) Election Fraud.

From what I have been able to discern, these are not topics of discussion in the media or academia—nor, if the public is even aware of these issues, do they see the issues as detrimental to the concept of self-government by We the People. 

Any time I have tried to talk with people about any of the 8 topics listed above, the most I get is sure it is important, but we have more pressing issues at the moment, so let us move on to those issues.

The fact is, the public is ignorant of these issues, and until the vast majority of the public truly understands these issues (which I have not attempted to explain in this letter), and how they have transferred the power of government from the people and our Constitution, to powerful special interests, there is no hope of fixing our broken system. 

So yes, there is nothing necessarily we can do to rectify any of these issues at the moment, but there is one critical thing we can do:  we can educate ourselves to these issues and we can find and develop ways to educate the public—until such time we reach a critical mass and the people can demand action.