We are not a strict Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic for good reasons.
Are you passively asking us to turn the Senate into the House and assign seats by State or district population?
Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas, four states that can basically control the Senate with the four of them together having less population than NYC. Total population for those four states, just over three million people. Wyoming has one house rep. who also consistently votes with trump's agenda.
The issue is the arbitrary cap on the size of the House of Reps.
That cap needs to be eliminated, the Rep to citizen ratio from when the cap was instituted restored, and then the size of the House increasing with every census.
Wyoming will keep its one Rep, while California would increase to close to 200 Reps, and an equal number of Electoral College votes.
That would still not increase the number of reps in states with low populations but it does give those states power in the Senate regardless of population. Should a state with one rep because of its population have the same number of senators with say a state with fifty million population versus a state with three hundred k population? Our constitution is not perfect, far from it.The issue is the arbitrary cap on the size of the House of Reps.
That cap needs to be eliminated, the Rep to citizen ratio from when the cap was instituted restored, and then the size of the House increasing with every census.
Wyoming will keep its one Rep, while California would increase to close to 200 Reps, and an equal number of Electoral College votes.
That would still be a Republic.
That would still not increase the number of reps in states with low populations but it does give those states power in the Senate regardless of population. Should a state with one rep because of its population have the same number of senators with say a state with fifty million population versus a state with three hundred k population? Our constitution is not perfect, far from it.
If the Senate was to be changed to be based on population, it would just be another House. Just abolish it entirely at that point as redundant.
We could always get creative and gerrymander the states. Do they really need to have the same lines for two centuries?
Just return it to Maryland.Make DC a state.
Just return it to Maryland.
If made a State, find an unpopulated area somewhere about mid U.S.A. and move the entire Federal government there, allowing no permanent residences within that area.
It also give excessive power to states with hardly any population. Like I said, our constitution isn't perfect. Let's be honest the four states mentioned all voted for Trump.Yes. Thats the point in having two different legislatures.
The House represents number of people, the Senate represents the number of States. The idea is that states are supposed to be equal members of the Union.
If the Senate was to be changed to be based on population, it would just be another House. Just abolish it entirely at that point as redundant.
Could repeal the 17th amendment and require each State to select 1 Republican and 1 Democrat to serve as Senator for each State. No party would then ever have a majority in the Senate, and might make the Vice President more active in government to break ties in the Senate.Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas, four states that can basically control the Senate with the four of them together having less population than NYC. Total population for those four states, just over three million people. Wyoming has one house rep. who also consistently votes with trump's agenda.
Think of the money it would save the taxpayers.Could repeal the 17th amendment and require each State to select 1 Republican and 1 Democrat to serve as Senator for each State. No party would then ever have a majority in the Senate, and might make the Vice President more active in government to break ties in the Senate.
As I was taught, about 77 years ago, that was what the Senate was supposed to do prior to passage of the 16th and 17th amendments.Think of the money it would save the taxpayers.
It also give excessive power to states with hardly any population. Like I said, our constitution isn't perfect. Let's be honest the four states mentioned all voted for Trump.
One vote, one person ends all the middleman stuff and electors along with the electoral college which in my opinion are all steps along the way that can nullify your vote. Winner takes all states, abolish that shit for a stepped system. That alone basically takes away forty percent of every states voters. If I vote for candidate A, I don't want candidate B to get my vote.
If anything, the House needs to grow in size due to the increase in population since whatever exact year in the early 1900’s the current number was set.
The electoral college would then also grow in size by the same #.
Unlikely to happen, but might be something to consider.
They support an anti-American criminal regime. That can't even be debated since the Chief Executive is a convicted financial fraud with several trials still pending for his traitorous criminal acts.Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas, four states that can basically control the Senate with the four of them together having less population than NYC. Total population for those four states, just over three million people. Wyoming has one house rep. who also consistently votes with trump's agenda.
Nope. If Wyoming gets to be a state, then DC should, too. Push it through when there's eventually a national backlash against fascism.Just return it to Maryland.
If made a State, find an unpopulated area somewhere about mid U.S.A. and move the entire Federal government there, allowing no permanent residences within that area.
Do you think a Republic can't be a democracy?We are not a strict Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic for good reasons.
Are you passively asking us to turn the Senate into the House and assign seats by State or district population?
Do you think a Republic can't be a democracy?
'Republic' almost by definition means democracy. It means not ruled by monarchy or aristocracy.
Could lead to creating hundreds, if not thousands of States.Nope. If Wyoming gets to be a state, then DC should, too. Push it through when there's eventually a national backlash against fascism.
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