States were supposed to retain everything everything except those very few, limited powers expressly provided for the federal government.
Democrats want to neuter the Senate because it protects small, rural states.
They are for the tyranny of the majority.
Don’t like the rules, change them.
And good luck with that.
Learn To Code.
The author does not like the design of the Constitution.
There is a process, called the Amendment process.
I cherish federalism and the checks and balances.
They were not put in place merely to give the states power, but to allow the states to check the power of the Federal government, and the majority of people.
Tyranny by the majority is still tyranny.
Kill The 17th
&
The 16th Too
Well, that was the original design. However, since the people now elect Senators, they are more beholden to their constituency, rather than the State.
So his premise is practically, not ideologically, incorrect.
Article really says nothing. They don’t like representatives from states making decisions. Maybe we should have a nationwide referendum on every decision? Obviously unworkable.
Just because representatives represent fewer people than senators still doesn’t mean they always reflect the popular will even in their own districts. Much less the common good.
Guess we shouldn’t have a president - that’s a single person representing every single citizen!
Boy those founding fathers sure were dumb! Epic /s
Whatever.
Just look towards California to see how well their system works - collapsing bridges, collapsing spillways, breaks in water delivery systems, criminal raids from sanctuary cities into the surrounding areas. These are the fruits of the Reynolds v Sims decision changing the California senate from representing the various areas of California to being apportioned by population.
It was a mistake to change the senate from being chosen in a manner decided by the states to one of popular vote.
In the end, Democrats are returning to familiar territory - wanting the slaves back on the plantation to work the harvests and provide for their needs; their voice is less than liberal’s voices, and must be squelched.
I wonder how loudly they will scream if Blacks don't give them 98% of their vote in 2020...
Trump won 32 states. That means 64 Senators.
And while we're at it we can lower the voteing age to 12,give the Supreme Court ultimate authority over the Armed Forces...
Senators do no represent the state anymore. They are voted by the people. Senators SHOULD be appointed by the governor or better yet, state Senators. Then they would have to answer to the state. Such as it is they answer to the biggest donor
Less well known was that many states didn't even have Congressional districts when the nation was first established. House districts didn't become mandatory for all states until the 1820s (I think). Before that, states could apportion their House members however they saw fit ... and many of them simply had at-large House members who represented the entire state. If Connecticut had 10 seats in the House, for example, they would simply hold a vote with dozens of candidates, and the top 10 vote-getters would represent the entire state in the House.
Interestingly, I'd make the case that Congressional districts have made state borders less meaningful than ever. A House district in western Massachusetts, for example, is likely to be represented by a Congressman who is far more similar to his neighboring Congressman in upstate New York than to the nitwits who represent the districts around Boston. In this sense, the U.S. Senate is even more critical now than ever before because it's the only representation people have that binds them to the other people in their own states.
I don’t consider myself a state citizen first because I am free to move around the country. I do however try to avoid entrenched blue states. While I am a resident of a particular state, I do make efforts to participate in the political process. I discovered the importance of that when a nearby city of 100K produced only 3K (three!) Voters during an election. Those voters passed some bad legislation for that city. 97 thousand people were stuck with the bad decisions made by a few.
The problem is that the people are supposed to be represented by their representatives, but they aren’t. The reps vote according to their own political ideologies rather than the desires of the people. A once per year around election time town hall doesn’t cut it. But then, it’s also difficult to get the town’s folk to sit in on a city counsil meeting. Therefore, the other half of the political equation is...We, the people.
Another leftest whining about the way they think things SHOULD work, rather than the way the law says that it does.
Cry baby, cry...
We would never have had a Constitution, and thus a united country, but for the Great Compromise. Some states (the smaller ones) wanted 1 legislative body, with representation being 1 vote per state. The larger states wanted one house with strictly proportional (based on population) voting. Both would have adversely affected the other group of states, so the Great Compromise was to give us BOTH. So each state (then and in the future) would have representation based upon being a state (with 2 votes in the Senate) and based upon their population in the House of Representatives.
That has worked well up until now (though it worked better before the 17th Amendment, when state legislatures directly appointed the Senators), but this guy wants to changed it - and the only reason is to enforce a tyranny of the majority. Might as well do away with the entire Bill of Rights while your at it - because those rights (pre-existing our government) are protected against 99.99% majorities (unless previously repealed, and thankfully none of them have been).
Screw this Leftist jackhole - all that he and his fellow travelers want is to run this country like a bunch of dictatorial philosopher kings. Well, sorry, no kings for us in the USA, philosophers or not. That’s what the 2nd Amendment helps to protect us against.
“States as states do need representation in the federal government. Under the Constitution, they have far too much. “
FEDERAL government
As in FEDERATION
Federation of what?
STATES
It is definitely the time to repeal the XVII Amendment that permitted the population election of senators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution