This is without Mare Nostrum . <| sep |> I ' m only guessing , but i guess is to avoid the feeling of emptyness you get whenever you finish a story . <| sep |> If killing rabbits were a warcrime . well I ' ll see you all at The Hague . <| sep |> but modified to have 3 Reps 2 Senators as the minimum rather than 12 . Then the Reps cover less people than the Senators and the bigger states get the appropriate amount of delegates . The problem is just the total size of the House then , which might make it not worthwhile as it would probably make the total over 1000 . The most common rule I ' ve seen to determine the size of a parliament is the cubic root rule . Basically take the number of people and find the cubic root of that number . That ' s your number of seats . For the US that yields a House of 704 people , which is quite large , but not too large . Germany and the UK both have only slightly smaller parliaments 630 seats in the Bundestag and 650 seats in the UK House of Commons and the EU parliament is actually slightly larger than that 751 seats