Congressional Apportionment

The government that was installed by the founding fathers was not meant to be a perfect democracy and therefore cannot be showcased as completely fair. There is not a way to make congressional apportionment fair because to change the system would be appeasing one viewpoint over the other, thus unfair. One can change how the representatives are apportioned, but there is no way to do that without irritating either sides of the political spectrum. The examples of unfairness are the extreme in American society, such as the example of District of Columbia. These examples are where many people have a hard time grasping that the Constitution was put into place to protect the idea of government. The constitutional apportionment of the state representatives was put into place to appease the larger states at the time. When creating the constitution that main argument was whether who had better representation, and thus a compromise was formed to try and make things fair. This compromise is now the root for whether this argument exists. To make the apportionment fair would reverting back to the beginning of the United States. The changing to make everyone equal would be inherently unequal because of the polarized two-party system in the United States.

The changing of the apportionment in the House, no matter which way it is done will not end up supposedly fair. Certain states that are known to be one way and have a lot of representative power, and if that power is supposedly threatened one way or another there is a big animosity between the groups. The way to change this though would be to not support hyper-partisanship and allow for an indiviual identity, but that it is impossible in the type of government that the United States is under. To keep the same amount in the house right now, it would be impossible to take numbers away and give to other states that are smaller, because this is not the system of representation in the United States. Such states like Texas and California have more power because of their ever-growing population, but states that are not growing like Wyoming do not have that power. The main caveat to that is that each and every state has power in congress with their two senators.

In conclusion, there is no way to change the House apportionment to make the representation fair in judgement. The country was founded on was to have others make governmental decisions by an intelligent peer. A compromise was made in which each type of states has some type of say. In the house there may be a disproportional amount of power, but each state has two senators. When trying to change a fundamental way that the United States is ran would be impossible in the political climate of today. Each polarized political party will view the change as a way for the other party to gain more power, and not seeing it as different people receiving representative power. The extreme examples of this include Washington DC, these people of DC know that they will not get a representative or senator because it is laid out in the constitution. To make government fair is an impossible task with split political parties, and thus trying to make apportionment fair now would do the exact opposite.