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« on: December 05, 2018, 02:16:12 AM »

Abolish the Senate, double the size of the House, introduce mixed member proportional, abolish the Presidency and have the executive chosen from the House as in a parliamentary system.

No thank you!

"And don't tell me about London and Berlin, god save us from the mess they are in".
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2018, 02:23:38 AM »

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv


There is no way you could use this amendment to say the present allocation of the 14th amendment is unconstitutional

Then the reasoning in Reynolds v. Sims must be incorrect. If representation based on geography is unconstitutional for the states, it stands to reason that it is unconstitutional for the federal government as well.

Reynolds is incorrect and the court should have never denied to the states, what the constitution reserves for itself to engage in at the federal level. This is the product of a majority that itself was keen on overwriting the explicit word of the Constitution and presumed as a matter of progress that the US Senate would one day be abolished or reformed, just that they themselves didn't view themselves as having the power to do so.

The ruling should have required that at least one chamber of each state represent its people in accordance with one man, one vote, not both.
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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2018, 02:34:58 AM »

Why not a system as in US states, where both house and senate members are elected for districts? Maybe 120 senators and 600 house members?

I support the Cube Root Rule for House. Which is 675 for the 2010 census.
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