I love salmon, but haven't had the pleasure of fresh caught river salmon with seasonal variability. But if humans appeared and took ALL the fish, I guess the bears would care then. And if hunters armed with guns had "bred up" to seriously cramp the food supply of bears, the bears would pretty much have to turn violent, wouldn't they?
That is not possible. There are fewer the 750,000 Alaskans, and even when you add in the 2.1 million tourists that use to visit Alaska every Summer, there are still more than 25 million salmon returning every season. The game is managed similarly. We ensure there is plenty of game for both wildlife and humans.
Representation in the Electoral College is chicken-feed. Particularly for a territory like DC, which has zero prospect of swinging. And it's interesting that you compare DC to territories. I consider it deeply unjust, imperialist behaviour for the US to hold "territories" without offering their people (US citizens even) the option of state-hood.
DC is a US territory. A federal district to be precise. It does not have the power of a State, because it was never intended to be a State. You cannot have a federal capitol in an existing State.
You can consider it whatever you like, but unless they are a State they have no voice in the federal government. The US has granted independence to former US territories in the past, like Cuba and the Philippines, but it has also held on to territories, like Puerto Rico and Guam. Nor is the US the only nation with territories. The US Virgin Islands, that the US bought from the Dutch in 1917, sits right next door to the British Virgin Islands.
WHERE the House and Senate convene barely matters. They could go virtual, or rotate annually between the States. Like a lot of the Constitution, this matter of where the capital should be is bogged down in assumptions about information travelling no faster than a horse or ship, and even worse, information travelling with an individual to vouch for its validity. But I see you're a literalist, and all objections will be met with "it has a mechanism of change, yet hasn't been changed, so the People don't support any change" when you know it's not that simple. Changing the constitution requires two thirds of Congress and three quarters of the state legislatures.
No other democracy has such high barriers to constitutional change. Passed twice by Parliament, before and after an election, is pretty common. So is a referendum (with one, or two, Parliamentary passages). Britain has no constitution to speak of, yet for single members elected first past the post, to represent equal population areas, the UK system is world class. They're not even bound to honour referenda, but they do anyway.
Britian had the Magna Carta. I refer to it in the past tense because it is effectively dead in England, and has been for quite some time. However, that very same Magna Carta is the basis for several Bill of Rights in the US Constitution. The Second, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments can all trace their origins back to that document signed in 1215.
You are also comparing the US federal government to the governments of other countries, and that is not an equivalent comparison. If anything the US is more along the lines of the EU, except that the US is a federation while the EU is a confederation. The US tried a confederation between 1775 and 1789, but it didn't work because the Articles of Confederation had no real teeth. States could simply ignore Congress' request for taxes, and Maryland did. So the US abandoned the confederation and replaced it with a federation in the form of the US Constitution.
Each individual State within the US would be equivalent to each member nation of the EU. The US is also not, nor has it ever been, a democracy. The US is a constitutional republic. Technically, even initiatives and propositions are a violation of the US Constitution since that involves direct democracy, but they are tolerated in several States.
The founding fathers begrudgingly allowed the US House of Representatives to be elected by popular vote, but that was all. More than a century later the Seventeenth Amendment was added to allow US Senators to be elected by popular vote. The States are still the ones that determine the President, as they always have.
Nobody in any of the member nations of the EU elect the Presidency of the Council of the EU either, and that can only be altered by treaty. So much for your "no other democracy..." nonsense. The EU is just as undemocratic as the US, even more so because the people in the member nations have no say on who represents them in the EU.