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To: Ancesthntr

So Wyoming gets 3 electoral votes instead of 1.
And CA gets 55 instead of 53.

There’s nothing there to negate ochlocracy.

The first congress was 65 seats. We’re at 435.

When the house was 65 seats, those 2 senate seats for each state mattered in the EC.

Then the 17th Amendment took the states, and the US headlong into mob rule.

It takes a while for a democratic republic to devolve, but ochlocracy always wins. As does anacyclosis.

Yes, a republic can have too much democracy. And any republic that has any, will eventually have too much.


30 posted on 05/20/2021 11:36:42 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

The first Congress was 65 seats...but there were only 13 states, so only 26 Senators. So, yes, there are far more House seats (and thus far more EVs from the popular vote), but the number of Senate seats has gone up by a factor of nearly 4 - it didn’t stand still.


37 posted on 05/21/2021 12:07:20 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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