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To: americanophile

The fact that each state has an equal number of senators still gives an advantage to smaller states.


11 posted on 01/04/2011 4:24:59 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The small states deserve equal representation in the Senate, but not disproportinate power, which is what they now enjoy. If each Senator is representing their state as a soverign, then the system makes sense. In representing the people of their states, based on popular election, the system equates, for instance, Wyoming’s 500,000 people with California’s 36 million, which is a grossly unfair system of representation (irrespective of what we think of the values and policies of the people in those states).


21 posted on 01/04/2011 4:39:43 PM PST by americanophile
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