This comes from our Constitution, where it is reported that George Washington changed "forty" to "thirty" thousand, having observed "the smallness of the proportion of Representatives" — which "had been considered by many members of the Convention an insufficient security for the rights & interests of the people."
In other words, Washington believed that a House of Representatives with one Representative for every 40,000 people would be too small relative to the total population, so he changed the ratio to 1:30,000.
Given our current U.S. population of roughly 343 million people, what is that ratio today with an artificially capped House of only 435 members? It works out to 1:788,506.
So if it feels like the federal government is out of our control today, it's because it is! #435deprived #28thAmendment
