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Bear in mind that the President of the United States is not directly elected by a popular vote. The mathematics of who gets the largest voice are distorted, in
by JdeBP 2y ago
Bear in mind that the President of the United States is not directly elected by a popular vote. The mathematics of who gets the largest voice are distorted, intentionally so by the Framers. They did not want low-population agrarian states to be permanently in effect disenfranchised.
It is ironic after all of these decades of originalism being seen as a reactionary thing against minorities that the Framers put positive discrimination for (economic and geographic) minorities into the Constitution explicitly to prevent "tyranny of the majority".
The U.S.A. is full of such ironies at the moment.
- hypeatei 2y ago> explicitly to prevent "tyranny of the majority" Yep, as if tyranny of the minority is better. Of course Republicans think it's good because it gets them elected but this country is regressing because of the status quo.
- chgs 2y agoWhen the framers were setting out their ideas the rural states had large populations. However the framers declared great swathes of them to be worth 60% of others.