Why the House Stopped Growing
A six-minute civic explainer that turns a fixed seat count into a historical, visual, and mathematical debate.
By @Vox for VoxRuns 08:03
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Why it works
At 0:00, the isolated number builds from dots and morphs into a seating diagram before the first cut at 0:04.9, making a policy abstraction tangible. Historical documents and archival montage explain how the rule hardened by 2:39, while the 3:49–4:00 comparison chart turns a large ratio into an outlier; that chart overlaps the strongest replay peak at 3:57–4:02.
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