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greenforest32
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« on: March 11, 2013, 07:24:29 PM »

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Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/11/us/politics/democracy-tested.html
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greenforest32
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« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2013, 07:52:41 PM »

Bicameralism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/11/if-youre-from-california-you-should-hate-the-senate/

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greenforest32
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« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2013, 08:46:06 PM »


Yeah that's an even better link.

I wonder how many votes a constitutional amendment to abolish the Senate and impose independent redistricting on House/state/local districts would get? Probably not many in Congress and I want to say a national initiative doing that would fare better but none of the initiative states have even gotten rid of their state senates.

There's a lot of power backing the ridiculous existing situation which is splendid news for the Senate, the filibuster, the Electoral College, etc.
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