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Originally Posted by Danzig
you're completely ignoring half of the legislative body! the house is based on population, or do you just conveniently ignore that??
i think you need to go back to civics class.
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I don't think that a person needs to "go back to civics class" just because they disagree with the way Senate seats are apportioned. I certainly
understand why the Senate was constructed the way it was - much as I
understand why the electoral college was created - but that doesn't mean I can't wish that these things could be changed now.
After all, there is also a reason that state legislatures (rather than voters) were the ones who elected U.S. Senators for decades in this country. Eventually people made the case that this system was undemocratic and should therefore be changed (which it obviously was). Something tells me that if DT had been around at that time, and someone came on here and argued that voters rather than state legislatures should elect U.S. senators.....they would have been told that they must just not understand why the always brilliant authors of the Constitution set up the system the way they did, and if they wanted to make
that change they might as well decide everything by having an opinion poll.