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The Constitution, for all intents and purposes, is unamendable... at least for any real democratic reform... and this is just nuts for a modern nation. What's happened is over the years parties give lip service to the Constitution even was they seek to modify it through other means. One such method is the GOP politicizing the federal judiciary. The Act you speak of also qualifies. If the number of representatives were still at 30k, we'd today have 10500 representatives.
Allowing for more Representatives would water down the antidemocratic nature of the EC but would not eliminate it as a potential antidemocratic influence any more than proposals to add more states. It does not deal with state winner take all laws. Only a true popular vote eliminates ALL problems... that is if all states have a Instant Runoff System. At SOME point Dems need to stand up for democratic principles... where no citizen's vote weighs more than the other, the minority can NEVER rule, and we abolish state suffrage. I'd love one of the chambers in Congress to be based on national party elections so if the Greens get 15% of the national vote, they'd get 15% of the seats. This would end the braindead nature of the political debate in DC... and Dems should welcome this because a multiparty system IS more "democratic". Maybe then so many would be less pissed off at the Greens for exercising the right to run a candidate and for voters to vote Green if that's what their conscience dictated.
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