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Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by ApolloFortyNine on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:00AM (#19492445)
>The way the parliament is elected is quite fair - it gives a little more power to people in smaller countries, but that's not unusual (UK westminster constituencies vary from 22k to 120k. U.S. congress areas are more even, ranging from 500k to 1 million). There's an argument that it should be more even than the current 11:1 ratio, but we call the U.S. senate democratic and that's a 69:1 ratio.

At least call out the House of Representatives, that's what supposed to truly represent individuals. The senate is supposed to be at a state level by design (originally of course it was supposed to be a check on the general public, but it doesn't work that way anymore).

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Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by isostatic on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:08PM (#19493105)
> At least call out the House of Representatives

I did ("U.S. congress areas are more even, ranging from 500k to 1 million")

> The senate is supposed to be at a state level by design

Yes, same as the EU Council (which is 1 rep per country, although that rep is the head of government of each country rather than directly elected -- I believe the senate started off in a similar fashion)

The U.S. House is more balanced than the UK parliament or European Parliament, but it's not an insane inbalance. Not sure what would happen if American Samoa became a state. Would it's rep get a vote? If so that would be 1 vote for 55k people. You'd have to have about 6000 reps in that case to have an even spread.

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