[Ray76]

> And when there was gridlock, then what?

In #33 you said you “don’t care about any potential bottlenecks”

[rollo tomasi]

That was the clause I made up which would create a gridlock for the Feds, not the States (A Senate could still vote for expansion despite gridlock/not a full representation of the States). By enumerating requirements for a vote/allowances concerning Federal expansion of agencies policies directly to the State Legislatures/Governors for passage would be harder to muster. A fractured Senate is exploitable (History/current conditions have shown this to be true) and the 17th took care of the "rest".

Negative rights hampers the Feds. The expansion of voting rights requires tougher "leashes" on what the government can and can't do. Unfortunately the bastardization in the context of the Constitution has led to the massive expansion of power. Voters along with the opinions of the Supreme Court, which exploited the flaws of the Constitution, and politicians that ran with "vote buying" schemes created the tyrannical and out-of-control agencies.