The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War / Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative
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The First Continental Congress met in 1774 as a protest of the Coercive Acts (intolerable Acts).