For weeks, ing up in inhabited land, growing from cloister of individuals seeking freedom to mass of many forcing First Nations communities westward, while painfully persisting under the thumb of Great Britain to the east. We talked through Sugar and Stamp Acts, Boston Tea Party, Continental..…

And in 1842, Congress required states to draw compact and contiguous districts of equal population, influenced perhaps by Britain’s 1832 Reform Act, which eliminated representation for towns with no population and provided representation for growing industrial cities. . In 1929,..…