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If this bothers you, elect senators who will ratify an actual treaty.
by wollstonecraft 9y ago
If this bothers you, elect senators who will ratify an actual treaty.
- mikeash 9y agoAlready did. Too bad my senators are canceled out by the senators chosen by the 600,000 inhabitants of Wyoming.
- webXL 9y agoPretty flippant solution by the GP, but to your point, there has to be some consensus among the states, just as there needs to be consensus among nations, no matter how varied the size of their populations. I'm in a small state, so I don't want California and New York setting our policy just as much as you don't want China and India setting yours.
- mikeash 9y agoStates are pretty arbitrary divisions. If California split into 66 equally populated pieces, nothing about the people or land would change, but they'd suddenly have 132 senators instead of 2, and each chunk would still have more people than Wyoming. Or they could split into 1000 pieces and have 2000 senators and completely dominate Congress. Would that be fair, do you think?