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In 1789, Congress proposed twelve amendments to the Constitution. Ten were ratified and became the Bill of Rights. One more was ratified in 1992 as the 27th Amendment. The last one, which the founders considered primary above all others, is still pending. 

Article the First sets a formula for growing the House of Representatives as the population grows. Without it, Congress capped the House at 435 members in 1929 and never changed it. The U.S. population has more than tripled since then. Each House member now represents about 760,000 people, up from roughly 210,000 when the cap was set. This makes Americans the third least represented population in the world out of hundreds of democracies. 

That means less access to your representative, less responsive government, and district-level differences that distort the weight of individual votes. Completing the unfinished Constitution would mean fewer rich, corrupt, dusty, out-of-touch incumbents in our government.

This isn't a new idea or a partisan one. It was George Washington's priority and the only topic he spoke on during the entire Constitutional Convention's final day. Without it all other rights are at risk. Eleven states have already ratified it. The amendment has no expiration date. It just needs more states to finish what the founders started.

We're asking state legislators to take up ratification of Article the First. If the 27th Amendment could wait 203 years, this one's only 237 years overdue.

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