Idea: 10 biggest states get 3 senators
FloridaMan1845:
Quote from: Motorcity on December 27, 2020, 07:13:40 PM
By 2040, 70% of Americans will live in 15 states giving them 30 senators. 30% of the population will have 70% of senators.
In 2040, 9 states will have 50% of the population!
My idea is allowing the 10 biggest states to have 3 senators. This would give a more power to a larger slice of the electorate.
The 10 biggest states are California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan.
With the current political climate, 3 would go to Democrats, 3 would go to Republicans, and 4 would be from swing states. So no party would lose seats.
Thoughts?
No. The Senate is meant to represent the States, not the people. Cmon, guys, act like y’all have taken at least one civics/history/government class.
MarkD:
The ninth and tenth biggest states (by population) now will not necessarily be the ninth and tenth thirty years from now, nor a hundred years from now. What do you suggest to deal with changes to the list of the ten biggest states?
Vosem:
The simpler idea, if you think the Senate is undemocratic, would be to transfer powers from the Senate to the House of Representatives, and leave the Senate as a symbolic body like the House of Lords. Or just partition very large states. (Actually, per the Constitution, the one thing you are never allowed to amend by the amendment process is equal representation of the states in the Senate, but states have broken off of other states multiple times in US history, including in the Founders' days, so that's clearly good and allowed practice.)
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