OS have a different format from Brazil to define the number of deputies per state.
The total of parliamentarians is also quite distinct in both countries: 435 deputies in the House of Representatives, compared to a total population of 340 million, and 513 deputies in the Brazilian House, compared to a population of 213 million.
It approved on Tuesday going to 531, in a bill that will still need to be voted in the Senate.
In the United States, the number of chairs per state varying according to the size of the population, according to a federal law signed in 1929. Each deputy has a two -year term.
The first rule on the distribution of seats in the House was established in 1787. The text determines that there can be no more than one representative for every 30,000 inhabitants, and that each state must have at least one representative. At that time, there were 65 deputies.
Today, the US has an average of a deputy to about 780,000 inhabitants. By the constitutional rule, with this population, the Chamber could have up to approximately 11,000 representatives, according to law professor Richard Primus of the University of Michigan.
The Constitution also states that the number of representatives must be adjusted based on census data, performed every ten years. This practice was followed until 1913. Since then, the total number of deputies remains in 435, fixed by the 1929 Law. Since then, only the distribution of these chairs between the states is updated, not the total members of the House.
Also Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, Rich Friedman, says the number of deputies could be amended by a new federal law. However, Congress has preferred to maintain the current number.
“A larger chamber could face some logistics challenges, but I believe it would be viable if there was a consensus that this change is necessary. In the early years of the Republic, the number of representatives increased periodically,” says Friedman.
