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The House of Representatives has been capped at 435 seats since 1929, while the population tripled. One representative now speaks for nearly 800,000 Americans. It’s time for a change.
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When in the course of human events, power centralizes, and the people struggle to hold their government accountable, we are compelled to reflect. We must ask: what kind of nation do we wish to be? Do we want to be a free and independent people, where out of many, we become one? Do we want to be united in purpose to govern ourselves, sharing authority and responsibility? Or do we want to become another drifting republic, where power escapes the reach of the people and slides toward tyranny or anarchy?We hold these truths to be self-evident: that people were created free, that a Republican form of government derives its powers from the consent of the governed, and that consent is given through representation accountable to the people.Since 1929, the people’s power in the House of Representatives has remained capped at 435 seats, despite the American population having tripled. This artificial and arbitrary limitation concentrates power, distorts Democracy, and undermines the relationship between citizen and representative. The 435 member cap violates the very purpose for which representative government was established —to be accountable to The People.Therefore, we unite to:First, Support Reform:
We must increase the size of the House of Representatives to remain a free people. Second, Champion Honest Debate:
We welcome rigorous discussion on the methods of expansion.Third, Push for a Vote:
We demand that Congress hold hearings and openly debate legislation to uncap and modernize the House. Fourth, Expand the Tent:
We must engage Americans of all political stripes in this cause. In support of these commitments, we promise one another our good faith effort, honest voice, and steadfast commitment to peaceably repair representation to The People and balance under our great Constitution.
At the beginning, it was our rallying cry, “no taxation without representation.” Who would be in power, people in a far and distant land, or the people of the land themselves? During the debates at the Philadelphia Convention, few questions loomed larger than representation. How would political power be divided between large and small states? The Great Compromise divided Congress into two: the states would have equal representation in the Senate (two per state), and the House would be apportioned by population. But then a new question arose—what should the ratio be between the population and representatives?It was on the issue of representation that George Washington had his only recorded intervention, supporting the motion changing the ratio from 1:50,000 inhabitants to 1:30,000 inhabitants, arguing that “the smallness of the proportion of Representatives” was “exceptional.” The Convention ultimately settled on a ratio of 1:30,000 inhabitants—a figure to ensure accountability, access, and a government rooted in its people. But…
In 1929, after years of debate over how to apportion representation in a rapidly changing country—one where people were moving from rural areas to booming cities—Congress passed the Permanent Apportionment Act, capping the House of Representatives at 435 members. At the time, each member represented about 220,000 people. Today, that number has ballooned to over 750,000. The cap has remained in place for nearly a century, even as the population has tripled.
What does political theorist and author Yuval Levin think? Click Why Representation Matters to learn more. 
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The No Cap Team
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Walter Clapp
Founder - VP
Walter is an attorney, entrepreneur, and inventor. Walter first learned about our lack of Representation and the failed First Amendment while clerking for the U.S. Senate in his last year of law school. He believes, as did George Washington, that freedom of speech must be used to elect good and adequate representation in our House. -
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Landon Glover
Co-Founder
Landon is an entrepreneur and lawyer. Landon’s interest in the size of the House started as intellectual curiosity and quickly turned into a dedicated project when he started the @uncapthehouse Twitter (now X) and subreddit in 2020, which he still runs. Since then, the pages accumulated thousands of followers. He co-founded the No Cap Fund to take the effort to uncap the House to the next level and accomplish the stated goal of uncapping the House by 2029, the 100-year anniversary of the cap on the House.
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Jeff Mayhugh
President
Jeff Mayhugh is a Christian, husband, and father of five. After building a small business and a family, Jeff decided to dig into history. He discovered the problem of the capped House, and he decided to get involved, volunteering for local campaigns and running for office. He is a contributor in The Hill, Newsweek, and The Blaze. Follow Jeff on X @jmayhugh28.
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Roger Scott
Treasurer – Board Member
Roger Scott has served for more than thirty years in various finance, accounting, and strategy leadership roles for some of the largest, most well-known firms on the planet, including AT&T and FedEx. Roger currently operates as a consulting accountant, serving as fractional CFO or Controller for client companies across the country. He has been married for 35 years and is proud to claim parentage of two adult children. -
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Thomas Howes
Board Member
Thomas D. Howes is Editor-in-Chief of The Vital Center, founder of the Reagan Caucus and Reagan Caucus Action, and a lecturer in politics at Princeton University. He is co-authoring, with James M. Patterson, a book to be published by the Acton Institute titled Why Postliberalism Failed. He also has a nearly completed manuscript defending constitutional democracy from the perspective of natural law theory.
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Matt Beat
Board Member
Matthew Beat, also known as Mr. Beat, is a multifaceted creator from Kansas—a YouTuber, video producer, educator, and musician. With experience teaching a range of subjects from grades 7–12, Matt has expanded his classroom to a global audience through his YouTube channels Mr. Beat and The Beat Goes On, collectively gaining over 1 million subscribers and over 350 million views.
The Representation Station is our flagship show dedicated to exploring representation and political reform.FAQ
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Uncapping the House means repealing the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. The act was written at a time when our population was booming. After the 1920 census, which was the first to record more than 100 million people, and the first to record more people living in urban areas than rural ones, Congress struggled to write a new apportionment bill. The combination of a shifting and growing population created friction in the process. Some states were worried about losing representation, and other members were concerned about the effects of immigration on representation. Others thought the size of the House was already too large and unruly, having argued about it since the 1890s.
Since the cap in 1929, the population has tripled, making what was once a large, representative legislative body a very small, unrepresentative one compared to the population it serves. This is a major reason the system feels broken. With such a small legislative body, each member’s power is greater, and each citizen’s vote is less influential. The distance between the citizen and the representative strains communication and makes it harder to hold the representative accountable if they fail to fulfill their responsibilities.
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Yes. But it would require modernization and reconfiguration.
As noted in an article in The Washington Post, Danielle Allen has explained that the current size of the House chamber reflects 20th-century choices, not constitutional limits. The chamber was last expanded in 1913, and the permanent cap of 435 members dates to 1929, when the U.S. population was less than one-third of today’s.
The United States Capitol has been repeatedly renovated and expanded over time, including the addition of office buildings and underground facilities. Options to accommodate a larger House include:
Reconfiguring seating layouts
Using electronic voting and updated chamber design
Modifying the House floor footprint
Conducting some proceedings through hybrid or remote systems
In short, yes, but with some reengineering.
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