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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by Graphon1 on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:36PM (#12916026)
> We just use an outdated system built to appease slaveholders that does not necessarily represent the bulk will of the people.

It may have been built with slave/free state "fairness" in mind, but even today the mechanism serves to level out the tyranny of the majority, from the states' perspective.

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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by MereInterest on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:33PM (#12916470)
I fail to see how a tyranny of the minority is better than a tyranny of the majority. The current winner-take-all system must provide one or the other.
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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by eveningcoffee on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:06PM (#12916702)
I fail to see how it is a tyranny of the minority. US is a federation after all.
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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by gohrt on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:41PM (#12917530)
A state doesn't have a "perspective". A state is just a line drawn around a collection of people. Mathematically, a majority of states have excess power in proportion to its population. From a state's imagined perspective, it's a tyranny of the majority.
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