My point was just that you're right, in the 18th century when the founding fathers designed this system the federal government was weak and federal law had very

My point was just that you're right, in the 18th century when the founding fathers designed this system the federal government was weak and federal law had very little influence. But in the 21st century the u.s. federal government has a much larger influence on people's lives. When a government is closer to a defense pact like Nato it makes sense to have voting apportioned by regional power. But as that government starts to have a larger impact on your day to day life than it makes less sense. If we started sending nato several trillion dollars a year it makes less sense for Bulgaria to have the same say in how that money is spent as we do. And there isn't really any political appetite to roll back the federal government to a size where that type of representation made sense. Moving social security and Medicare from the federal to the state or city level would be a political non starter.