Socrates99
Bottoms up!
Sure, the political will has to be there first though.Congress set the cap themselves, though. They're capable of raising it from 435 if they want.
Sure, the political will has to be there first though.Congress set the cap themselves, though. They're capable of raising it from 435 if they want.
Sure, the political will has to be there first though.
Puerto Rico should be a province of Canada
Yep, definitely had Canada's long linkages with the anglophone Caribbean in mind there!
Um… didn't they reach a compromise already with the Washington, D.C. situation? Also Puerto Rico has nonvoting members of Congress so it's not as if they didn't send anybody (not that at least one of the two parties in the regime doesn't take them into account and considers them inherently inferior Latinos).They aren't a state specifically because of one of the reasons you mentioned. They'd get electoral votes and house seats. Those had a hard cap placed on them so in order for Puerto Rico to get some they'd have to take away from other states. Where do they come from? States with high numbers like California and New York or states with low population that are technically "over represented" like Wyoming? Either option favors one party or another.
TIL the US actually has a defined legal category of the ‘US national’ that ranks below ‘US citizen’. I already knew about non-voting territories but this tiny piece of information had escaped me.For those who haven't seen this. It's very enlightening
Mexico is a totally independent nation adjacent to the United States and so many Mexicans have to climb over the border walls to enter the U.S. territory.Actually, that's just in the modern day. In the 1930's to 1960's, when the Independence Movement was VERY strong, it was treated as a treasonous, seditious, and insurgent movement by the American Government, even though they hadn't started out with any violence or sabotage attempts, and tried to use legitimate political channels from the start like PIP does today.
Mexico is a totally independent nation adjacent to the United States and so many Mexicans have to climb over the border walls to enter the U.S. territory.
Puerto Rico should feel lucky that they are already part of U.S. I believe they won't want to be independent base on the recent world trends.
It's 2019. If continent-spanning mega-corporations can exist with leadership structures numbering in the thousands and they function well enough to become dominate economic machines then I think the US Congress can handle being over 500 members. We have the technology.A hard cap is fine where I'm concerned. The number a congressmen represents is considerably different than it was. A consistent proportion would make congress so big it would be unmanageable.
With a hard cap and borders between the states, you will always wind up with a badly apportioned body over time. The only way you can even out the numbers is if house districts could cross state lines. You'd need Wyoming to share a house member with Idaho, for example. The other way to fix it is to grow the size of the body, i.e. have a bigger House.I'm not against a hard cap but they do need to be re- aportioned more often to prevent some districts from having 30k people while others have over 70k population. Maybe if they worked like that there'd be less opposition to granting territories statehood.
DC gets EC votes but only a non-voting House representative and no Senate representation at all. (Pretty sure they don't have a non-voting Senator)Um… didn't they reach a compromise already with the Washington, D.C. situation? Also Puerto Rico has nonvoting members of Congress so it's not as if they didn't send anybody (not that at least one of the two parties in the regime doesn't take them into account and considers them inherently inferior Latinos).
TIL the US actually has a defined legal category of the ‘US national’ that ranks below ‘US citizen’. I already knew about non-voting territories but this tiny piece of information had escaped me.
OK, so there's precedent for the electoral college already.
I think that part of the problem with incorporating Puerto Rico is that it would entail having to translate a lot of official legislation into Spanish, thus validating Spanish-speakers as human beings.
Ah, but that would be treasonous. When has the US given up an occupied territory? When has any other empire, of its own benevolent will?
I don't know about that. I'm part of a Global mega-corporation with thousands in the management ranks where almost all of them have no impact over the direction the company goes. That is still determined by a small hand full and spoon feed to the rest.It's 2019. If continent-spanning mega-corporations can exist with leadership structures numbering in the thousands and they function well enough to become dominate economic machines then I think the US Congress can handle being over 500 members. We have the technology.
I don't know about that. I'm part of a Global mega-corporation with thousands in the management ranks where almost all of them have no impact over the direction the company goes. That is still determined by a small hand full and spoon feed to the rest.
Greetings from the Philippines. And don't even get me started on West Germany, Italy, Iraq, Japan. South Korea. Mexico. Panama, Grenada. Vichy France, Dominican Republic, & Haiti.When has the US given up an occupied territory?
Edit: also see this betrayal of the Philippines, the US Congress withdrawing veterans' benefits from Filipino combatants.[/QUOTE]... there was no need to occupy it militarily
Look up the invention of the .45 automatic if you think things were peaceful here.