Before the elections in 2012, Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform, pressured 238 House members and 41 Senators to sign his Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Whether it was good or poor policy doesn't matter. What does matter is those members of Congress that made that pledge were pledging to a non-profit organization instead of to the People they represented.

 

They were also in violation of the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Sec 8 Powers of Congress, where it states:

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"

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By pledging to Mr Norquist and his non-profit, those signing the Pledge actually abdicated their Constitutional duty by surrendering their decision to a private group of The People. 

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CONTRACTS WITH AMERICANS forces candidates and elected officials to sign a contract with Americans that they support increasing the size of the House (preferably PROJECT1305 in particular).  

 

CONTRACTS WITH AMERICANS also allows any Americans that support increasing the size of the House (preferably PROJECT1305 in particular) to demonstrate it by signing their own contract.

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CONTRACTS WITH AMERICANS also allows Americans an easy way to approach local elected officials, including judges, to request they sign a contact to demonstrate if they are aligned or not.

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Because most of our elected officials run as Democrats or Republicans, they have influence within their respective party, as well as with those that voted for them. If they don't get on board the train may never leave the station.

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If this is to be successful it needs to be a grassroots versus billionaire driven machine. As an example, the The big donors may be able to influence through positive and negative marketing, but even the Bill Gates, Elon Musk, George Soros, and Peter Thiel each get just one VOTE.  And some of them will be on the side of Sizing Up the House.

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Last count there are about 800 billionaires (with combined wealth of $6 Trillion) living in the United States, and about 250,000 millionaires with each having wealth over $30 million in the U.S.

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Even if all 250,800 of them were all aligned against PROJECT 1305, and spent all the money they could, The People are about 185 Million registered voters. But of course many of the wealthy will support 'Sizing Up the House.

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If enough of us sign on and take some type of action - like 2- 3 million of us visit Washington D.C. and camp out on the lawn in front of the Washington Monument -  enough candidates and elected officials will jump onto the moving train.