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In the 2010 census, there were 308,745,538 people in the [[United States]],<ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. Census Bureau Announces 2010 Census Population Counts – Apportionment Counts Delivered to President |url=http://2010.census.gov/news/releases/operations/cb10-cn93.html |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |date=December 21, 2010 |accessdate=January 9, 2011 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20101224044247/http://2010.census.gov/news/releases/operations/cb10-cn93.html |archivedate=December 24, 2010}}</ref> which would have set the current size of the House of Representatives at 6,174 members.  The amendment would have been a part of the Bill of Rights but for a vote by the Delaware General Assembly on January 28, 1790, to ratify the other eleven amendments in the Bill of Rights while rejecting this one.

In the 2010 census, there were 308,745,538 people in the [[United States]],<ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. Census Bureau Announces 2010 Census Population Counts – Apportionment Counts Delivered to President |url=http://2010.census.gov/news/releases/operations/cb10-cn93.html |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |date=December 21, 2010 |accessdate=January 9, 2011 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20101224044247/http://2010.census.gov/news/releases/operations/cb10-cn93.html |archivedate=December 24, 2010}}</ref> which would have set the current size of the House of Representatives at 6,174 members.  The amendment would have been a part of the Bill of Rights but for a vote by the Delaware General Assembly on January 28, 1790, to ratify the other eleven amendments in the Bill of Rights while rejecting this one.

On April 15, 2015, a new campaign began to push this amendment toward ratification. But this group ignores a critical flaw in the text. The last word ''more'' ought to read ''less,'' as it did before the 1789 House changed it. That would allow the same effect as we have today.<ref>{{cite web|title=Packing the House? - Conservative News and Views |url=http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2015/04/16/constitution/packing-the-house/ |publisher=Conservative News and Views |date=April 16, 2015 |accessdate=April 16, 2015}}</ref>

On April 15, 2015, a new campaign began to push this amendment toward ratification. But this group ignores a critical flaw in the text. The last word ''more'' ought to read ''less,'' as it did before the 1789 House changed it. That would allow the same effect as we have today.<ref>{{cite web|title=Packing the House? - Conservative News and Views |url=https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2015/04/16/constitution/packing-the-house/ |publisher=Conservative News and Views |date=April 16, 2015 |accessdate=April 16, 2015}}</ref>

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[[Category:United States Constitution]]

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