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Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸
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« on: July 24, 2018, 02:16:46 PM »

What was the reasoning behind  Reynolds v. Sims, anyways? If it's democratic enough for the federal government, it seems weird that it would be unconstitutional for the state governments. I wonder if it will get overturned.

I think it's because the United States is meant to be a union of states, with the Senate being where they are all represented as equals. Whereas states are not a union of counties; in fact, counties themselves only exist at the pleasure of the state governments that authorize their creation.
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2018, 02:19:00 PM »

As far as state senates go, I would either abolish that chamber altogether or make it into a proportional representation body with members chosen from party lists based on the statewide popular vote.
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« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2018, 05:00:51 PM »


Indeed. Our bicameral federal legislature is the reason the Affordable Care Act is still with us!
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