The House<span> is one of </span>Congress's<span> two chambers (the other is the U.S. Senate), and part of the federal government's legislative branch. The number of voting</span>re preventatives<span> in the </span>House<span> is fixed by law at no more than 435, proportionally representing the population of the 50 states.</span>
Two of the main events that fueled the start of the French Revolution were the Enlightenment and the "American Revolution," since the Americans proved that a great and mighty power could be overthrown.
The world's population today is much larger than it has been in anytime in the history of the world, and has been continuing to grow ever since the Industrial Revolution, since this raised the living standards and increased in incomes of an enormous number of people, especially in the western world. Advances in medicine have also played a major role.