There are 435 Members of the House of Representatives. According to the Constitution as it was written, and applied at the time it was written, there should be 1 Representative for every 30,000 people. The U.S. population, at this writing, is 309,121,451. Sticking with the Constitution, we should have a House of Representatives with 10,304 Members.
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