Reply #16: It might be interesting ... [View All]

... to require that various state redistricting plans be subjected to a statewide ballot where the voters select among a slate of such proposed 'plans'. Since such district maps actually apportion representation itself, it's ethically specious (IMHO) to leave such apportionment up to any current crop of representatives. If anything should be left directly to the electorate, it's the very scheme of representation itself.

This, I believe, is at the heart of why a 'republican' structure absolutely must be alloyed with a viable 'democratic' methodology for a nation to be effectively self-governing. Any power vested in the representatives to determine the very manner of representation is de facto political corruption, IMHO.