Massachusetts is a better example. It was divided in 1820, when Maine became a separate State.

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President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they can't add.

The States in New England are not very small, population wise, with the exception of Vermont. The areas of Rhode Island and Connecticut may be the smallest and third smallest, respecitively, but they have larger populations than many other States. Connecticut is the 29th largest, Rhode Island the 43rd, out of 50. (The State with the second smallest territory is Delaware, which has the 45th largest population.)

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President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they can't add.

There is no such thing as a state "wielding too much power" so long as it is within their State constitution and the Federal Constitution.

It may piss people off who don't like it, but too bad...that is part of the deal that made and keeps America a Republic made up of independent states.

This isn't "mob rule" or "One state of 50 provinces under federal law."



So the electoral system sucks. It always will, regardless of what is done, short of it being abolished for a strict "popular vote."

20+ million illegals here voting for the party that hands them their free food and free medical care and discounted education/college fees? Of course it effects the outcome and is beyond what is fair, never mind what is LEGAL.

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Does this say that illegal immigrants shouldn't be counted for purposes of representation?
It says you count the persons (and illegal aliens are persons), and the reduction is based on citizens denied the vote.

Obviously, illegal aliens aren't citizens denied the vote, so no reduction takes place.
It seems to me that Persons get represented, regardless of immigration status or citizenship.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

I believe you are right, especially since there is a provision that excludes "Indians not taxed". Thus, the rest of the humans must be included. The question is, then, how you could reasonably count illegal aliens. Most of them would not want to participate in a census, would they?

I know of no legal precedent addressing this issue.

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President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they can't add.