THE principle difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this Representative Assembly. It should be in miniature, an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think feel, reason, and act like them. That it may be the interest of this Assembly to do strict justice at all times, it should be an equal representation, or in other words equal interest among the people should have equal interest in it. Great care should be taken to effect this, and to prevent unfair, partial, and corrupt elections.
John Adams, Thoughts on Government, April, 1776
[I think about this now because in Michigan great care was taken by Republicans to effect the opposite. Democrats won the statewide vote for both Congress and the Michigan State House, and yet we get a Republican majority delegation. Democracy here is being stolen. ---founding father quotes]
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