Thirty-Thousand.org

thirty-thousand.org

About Us

Established in 2004, thirty-thousand.org conducts research on, and educates the public about, the insidious degradation of representative democracy in the United States which results from Congress’s longstanding practice of constricting the size of the U. S. House of Representatives relative to the total population.

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Quidam

Thirty-thousand.org believes that the number of federal Representatives in the U.S. House should be increased substantially in order to extend the ground of public confidence in our government and to best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

Thirty-thousand.org will educate the public about the benefits of returning political power to the people by re-establishing House districts that are both smaller and equalized nationally as was originally envisioned by the framers of the federal Constitution and by the states’ conventions which subsequently ratified it.

Objectives

Provide information about the substantial dilution of our democratic rights as a result of increasingly oversized U. S. House districts.
Educate the public on the benefits of returning the House of Representatives to the people by re-establishing the smaller House district sizes envisioned by this nation’s founders.
Identify the challenges associated with this transformation along with possible solutions to address those challenges.
Stimulate debate around all of the foregoing areas.

This web pamphlet is published by thirty-thousand.org (“TTO”).
TTO is a non-partisan and non-profit corporation that
is not affiliated with any political organization.

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Additional Resources

Additional Resources

Search, Analyses and Other Resources

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Submissions

Anyone with material to contribute (e.g., data, studies, issues, etc.)
is encouraged to do so (see contact information below).

Also welcome would be expressions of support, feedback on
this web site, concerns regarding this proposal,
and well-reasoned opposition to it.

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Contact Information

Address:
Thirty-Thousand.org, Inc.
P.O. Box 888855
Dunwoody, Georgia 30356

Fax:
678-222-3793

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Quidam

Who is Quidam?

“Mr. MASON argued strongly for an election of the larger branch by the people. It was to be the grand depository of the democratic principle of the Government. … It ought to know and sympathize with every part of the community, and ought therefore to be taken, not only from different parts of the whole republic, but also from different districts of the larger members of it … We ought to attend to the rights of every class of the people.” Elliot's Debates; May 31, 1787 (page 136)

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“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ...
it expects what never was and never will be.”
– Thomas Jefferson