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Forget 3-1, what about 65-1? Legislation needs to pass both Senate and the House, and in the senate, someone from a state like Wyoming has 65x more voting powe
by ehsankia 4y ago
Forget 3-1, what about 65-1?
Legislation needs to pass both Senate and the House, and in the senate, someone from a state like Wyoming has 65x more voting power than someone living in California.
- dahfizz 4y agoThat is intentional. The same mechanisms exist in the EU to protect smaller states, for example.
- bluesnowmonkey 4y agoStates don’t need to be protected. States are not people. Government is of the people, by the people, for the people. Not of the states, by the states, for the states.
- prepend 4y agoDo small countries in Europe not need to be protected? I think the issue is that small states and countries would not join if they would be subject to whatever large states decided. So the option would be to have a country without Vermont and stuff or to have them in the current config. Because that’s the math that was done 250 years ago that resulted in NY and VA choosing to accept it, and also smaller states.
- oezi 4y agoAnd it is has led Europe to serious problems when there are two countries (Hungary and Poland come to mind) which protect each other from anything inconvenient.