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I won't argue with the first point, but the country as always had state-wide at-large seats, every state that has the population for only one representative has a state-wide seat (the current congress has 7: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, Vermont, Wyoming, and both Dakotas), and most states, sometime in the past had at-large districts, even when they had more than one representative (Maryland 1963-1967, Virginia 1883-1885 and 1933-1935, more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:At-large_United_States_congressional_districts).