The built in constitutional veto/bias towards the smaller USA states

[(no subject)]

I cannot see the small states ever being willing to give up their power and it cannot be removed without their consent.

It’s a Satan ice skating to work or Christmas being abolished likelihood.

[Gary JG]

Changing the relative power of the states would probably require an extinction level event for the existing constitutional and legal order. If the context of state history and powers had largely been erased by events, then a new constitutional order might change things.

What I have in mind is Germany. The German states, under the Empire and the Weimar Republic, had deep historical and constitutional roots. Some of them had been significant independent powers before German unification, which was within living memory.

The Nazi regime did not formally abolish the Weimar Republic constitution or make major changes to most state boundaries, they just ignored all such formalities when convenient. The context was so different by 1945, that constitutional and state boundary changes came about within the next few years. Notably the Allied occupation authorities broke up Prussia, the largest and historically most powerful of the German states, and there was a general reshuffling of most state boundaries.

[dead0man]

the smaller states only agreed to join the union because of the unfair deal, why would they change now?  It seems to me that the big states would need to offer something to the smaller states in exchange.