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At what point does it stop making sense? We exist on a continuum somewhere between states having equal population on one side and 1 person per state and 1 state
by aaron-santos 7y ago
At what point does it stop making sense? We exist on a continuum somewhere between states having equal population on one side and 1 person per state and 1 state with everyone else on the other. It feels like we're moving toward the latter. Especially since the way the senate rules are structured it only takes 20.5 low population states to block everything.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> At what point does it stop making sense? The same time the 3/5 compromise and the other parts of the original design of the Constitution designed to preserve unity by assuring slave states that the greater voting population of the free states wouldn't lead to abolition stopped making sense, about 150 years ago. But the power structure it set up is self perpetuating, so it doesn't matter that it stopped making sense; the people that benefit from it will always protect it and find a way to rationalize it.