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To: Forty-Niner
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We have 9% of the population but only hold 2% of the Senate seats.........

But, the Senate was designed that way on purpose ... You can't expect anything different than the founding fathers put together. You may be thinking about the House of Representatives, instead ... :-)

29 posted on 06/15/2010 11:10:30 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

“But, the Senate was designed that way on purpose ... You can’t expect anything different than the founding fathers put together. You may be thinking about the House of Representatives, instead ... :-)”

I understand that, and agree with it’s purpose of leveling the power between big state v small state in the upper house (Senate).....Yet at the same time, I don’t think that the founders envisioned a mega state like California with a 38M population being represented by just 2 Senators when that compromise was made .....

The solution is not more Senators for each state, it is smaller (population wise) states. Time for California to be divided into 3 parts.... 6 senators and 54 House members Total.... Southern California, Northern California, and the State of Jefferson (with portions of southern Oregon)....

Even then, two of those would have just 2 Senators as the Founders envisioned for still very large states, (~15M+ each N & S California)


30 posted on 06/16/2010 12:10:00 AM PDT by Forty-Niner
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