What a delusional pipe dream. Do you really think you can get 38 states to change the Constitution so that 25 of them will have LESS power in electing federal officials? The Leftist coasts would rule the federal government, and the vast bulk of the nation would be required to pay for their Socialist programs. That will NEVER happen unless we all vote for marijuana to be smoked in all 50 states 24/7.
Good point. It’s more likely that the 38 least populous states would wish to strengthen their leverage by adjusting the system as follows:
Keep the 438 electors distributed to the states according to population, but add 6 electors to each state based on statehood (currently 2 per state regardless of population). Now the total number of electors would be 438 +(8x50)=838. 420 required to win.
This would roughly balance the number of population based electors (438) with the number of non-population based electors (400). Also repeal the 17th amendment and increase senators per state according to the same formula.
Many people forget that the states would never have ratified the constitution without the electoral college system and other non population based reinforcement to their state sovereignty, such as the senate.
In retrospect, the smaller states should have held out for more.
The old metaphor of thirty wolves and twenty sheep voting on what’s for dinner is a perfect indictment of the flaw of democracy. Why would the various animal species (the states) agree to a democratic vote regarding the food chain? The answer is that they wouldn’t. They didn’t. Hence the electoral college system and the senate.
These anti-democracy structures need to be understood and reinforced or the populous cities of LA, NYC and Chicago with their urban perspectives and values will force the rest of us to conform and eventually devour us.