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hlthe2b

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2. WY, ND and SD have only one Congressional Rep each, though

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 01:59 PM

Jul 2019

while California has 53.

I have gone back and forth on whether the Senate is really fair--currently, the argument would clearly fall on NO, but that is the system the Founding Fathers imagined--or more to the point the compromise reached. It will be hard to change.

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Fair? [View all] kentuck Jul 2019 OP

It was never designed to be fair. guillaumeb Jul 2019 #1

WY, ND and SD have only one Congressional Rep each, though hlthe2b Jul 2019 #2

Give the big states more Senators or give the little states less Senators... kentuck Jul 2019 #3

Wondering why we have two Dakotas. Wouldn't one big Dakota be enough? No Vested Interest Jul 2019 #4

Get thee to Federalist #62 melm00se Jul 2019 #5

It wasn't designed for current population disparity Midnightwalk Jul 2019 #6