but they initially drafted the Constitution to favor a few moneyed landowners, not the citizenry.
Thomas Jefferson on that:
Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. It may be said, that the succeeding generation exercising, in fact, the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to nineteen years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be, indeed, if every form of government were so perfectly contrived, that the will of the majority could always be obtained, fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves; their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils, bribery corrupts them, personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents; and other impediments arise, so as to prove to every practical man, that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:459, Papers 15:396
Were we a true democracy, the Senate, like the House, would have a proportionate number of Senators relative to the size of the population in any given State. As it stands now, Wyoming with their 550,00 people gets as many Senators as California with our 38 MILLION people.
That said...as the election results in the above States have shown time and again, where there are more people voting, Democrats/Liberals win. Where there are fewer people voting, Republicans/Conservatives win. And there's no denying that turnout this time around was
pathetic.
Only 36% of eligible voters who share our liberal principles bothered to take time out of their busy lives, and vote, and that always favors Republicans who are
fanatical when it comes to voting. Combine that with voter suppression laws enacted in crucial States and you have the answer why we lost.
Too many don't consider voting as our civic duty as an American citizen to have a say in our representative government. They believe is something you do when you have the time or inclination, taking on a laissez faire attitude about something that, in the past, people have been beaten, tortured, hanged, shot, and murdered for in order to win for us the right of that precious vote today. And that's just heartbreaking.
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