The Mystery of the Bill of Rights' First Amendment

The House of Representatives is composed of a 200 member legislative body and a 235 member representative body. Expanding the representative body does not expand the committee structure of the House and does not alter the methodology of how the House operates. What such an enlargement does do is to expand the number of members from which the actual legislative body will be composed. The current size of electoral districts prevents many very qualified candidates from ever entering the representative body. There are often several highly qualified candidates within these overly large electoral districts and they will never be in the representative pool for selection into the actual legislative body.

An increase in the number of representatives merely increase the number of votes on the bills created by the more deliberative legislative body (the committees) and provides a more pronounced voice of the people. Many bills such as the handout to the banks would not ever get past a larger representative body because the people will reject such malfeasance.