# Better ways to reapportion Congress **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 10, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-ways-to-reapportion-congress/917741 "2020-08-10T20:42:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-ways-to-reapportion-congress/917741/11 "2020-08-11T02:39:44Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Partly because the House isn’t big enough to allow more equal representation. I’ve brought this up before. > [@Constitutional Maximum for the House](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constitutional-maximum-for-the-house/795035): > > I was going to post this in another thread, but instead of starting a hijack, I think I’d rather open a new discussion. This part could make an interesting debate: should we use the Constitutional maximum number of representatives of not more than one per 30,000 free persons? Based on the 2010 census, that’d give us 10,271 representatives. States would have between 19 and 1274 representatives. [spoiler]Alabama 159 Alaska 24 Arizona 213 Arkansas 97 California 1242 Colorado 168 Connectic… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-ways-to-reapportion-congress/917741)._