Re:Trump to sign executive order on social media Thursday
by AnHonestComment on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:30AM
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The extra voting comes from giving them enough legislative say that they can negotiate for their own benefits in the Senate.
The Senate is a counter-balancing force to the population distributed House of Representatives. The Senate is meant to represent each state as an equal and autonomous member of the union.
Your snark aside, horse-trading in the senate seems to be what accomplished small state agendas.
The US government was never meant to be a democracy, and certainly not one with fully equal representation across states.
The majority of the country already has a majority of the representation — only 1 in 10 states has the minimal representation, thus extra voting. The majority of votes in the House, by a wide margin, are distributed based on population with less than 3% going to minimums in excess of population.
But if you truly believe this is a better way, implement it on a regional or state level first to model for the rest of the country how well it works. That’s the beauty of autonomous states — we can try before we fully commit.
The Senate is a counter-balancing force to the population distributed House of Representatives. The Senate is meant to represent each state as an equal and autonomous member of the union.
Your snark aside, horse-trading in the senate seems to be what accomplished small state agendas.
The US government was never meant to be a democracy, and certainly not one with fully equal representation across states.
The majority of the country already has a majority of the representation — only 1 in 10 states has the minimal representation, thus extra voting. The majority of votes in the House, by a wide margin, are distributed based on population with less than 3% going to minimums in excess of population.
But if you truly believe this is a better way, implement it on a regional or state level first to model for the rest of the country how well it works. That’s the beauty of autonomous states — we can try before we fully commit.