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Unequal per-person weighting in our systems of representation can be demonstrated with nothing but a copy of the Constitution.
by whatshisface 3y ago
Unequal per-person weighting in our systems of representation can be demonstrated with nothing but a copy of the Constitution.
- JohnFen 3y agoSure, and I agree that the election system in the US undemocratic to the point of being arguably corrupt. But by "rigged", what most people mean is "manipulated in a way that isn't legally allowed". There's no evidence that this happened to any meaningful degree.
- whatshisface 3y agoIf you look at the gerrymandering court cases you'll see that proposed districts get ruled illegal very often. If you think of "the law" as a boundary independent of individual judges then after factoring in human imperfections this shows there must be a number of districts whose layout is against that idea of the law but got through anyways. It's stretching philosophy to say that but arguments on the democratic/legal basis of democracy/law itself are never simple.