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zipplewrath

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6. sorta

Reply to MasterofBiscuits (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 11, 2019, 01:35 PM

Jun 2019

I don't think they intended that 30% of the white men could control 70% of the Senate. They wanted the minority to have an outsized vote, but when there were only 13 states, it would have been nearly impossible for this kind of imbalance. But when you have all of these low population western states, not to mention Alaska, it gives them way more than ever intended.

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BTRTN: Catch 1776... How Will We Repair our Democracy When It's So Hard to Fix the Constitution? [View all] reggieandlee Jun 2019 OP

Slowly... brooklynite Jun 2019 #1

Unfixable zipplewrath Jun 2019 #2

Does not have to go that way.... reggieandlee Jun 2019 #3

Senate representation is impossible to fix zipplewrath Jun 2019 #4

That't the way white men intended it so many moons ago. MasterofBiscuits Jun 2019 #5

sorta zipplewrath Jun 2019 #6