Charles 46277 wrote:
The House districts are redrawn whenever we have a census so they will all represent equal voices. The Senate was designed in the early Republic to assure that important decisions included fair representation from all areas, not just the biggest states. However, it would not be hard to redistrict the Senate when we have a census. We could have 50 senators, but they would each represent areas of equal v**ers, today about 7 million per senator. This would still give all areas a fair say--New England equal to the South, and the Midwest equal to the Great Plains . Five or six states with sparse populations would have the same power as one or two populous ones.
There is no good argument for going against the principle of one-person/one-v**e, and the Federal courts already ruled out state senates that let sparse farming areas have more power than populous cities--they have to have about equal population for each senate seat. That still means that any law requires broad support around the state. Why should a v**e in Wyoming count five times as much as one in Texas or Florida? America has always had people who never actually liked the idea of other people having an equal say (Hamilton comes to mind, and favored only landowners v****g--a practice in the South even in 1960). People whose v**e counts extra are loathe to give it up to hoi polloi.
Surely it is not quite right that a candidate who got more v**es than any winner in the history of the nation (except one--Obama's first), and the biggest popular v**e majority in history (except Obama's first), lose to a minority that flipped the E*******l balance?
A different approach would be to let any city with a metro population equal to smaller states (say, the bottom 5 in population) could be given statehood. This would give them senate seats of their own, and most Americans now live in cities--underrepresented. This would in turn give them e*******l balance in the E*******l College as well, as these v**es add together House and Senate members for their representation.
Another reason for the E*******l College was to give Congress the choice of President when there is no strong national consensus, and that is what happened with Thomas Jefferson. However, I think that if this is done, it should be with the new Congress rather than the lame ducks--the new one would represent the freshest reflection of the people.
Jefferson himself believed the Constitution would be changed all the time (which is easier with just a few states), and in his Second Inaugural he said he would support any bill that helped the people, and would support an Amendment for that whenever required. He said it did not seem right to him that the nation should be ruled by dead men. He also boasted that he had paid off the entire national debt from the Revolution by selling real estate in the western territories, bought from the Indian nations at going prices (at that time they could take their money and move west--no great hardship).
Still another approach in favor of democracy would be to have each state divide their e*******l v**es in proportion to the v**es in their state, rather than winner takes all in that state. (Some states do this.)
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Well....we’re not a democracy, we’re a democratic republic and the e*******l does prevent the Tyranny of the masses and driving the country down to the lowest common denominators and all that.
You l*****ts should sit back, quit whining, and realize the system works fine.....it’s the lazy POS you out up for e******n that didn’t work fine.