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The issue with the Senate, of course, is that you end up giving Wyoming's... Four hundred thousand people - I just did the math. Wyoming has 400,000 people and two senators and California has 36 million people and two senators. It is hard to justify that.
Originally posted by denynothing
I watched Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday and boy was I surpised. His contributor said this...
The issue with the Senate, of course, is that you end up giving Wyoming's... Four hundred thousand people - I just did the math. Wyoming has 400,000 people and two senators and California has 36 million people and two senators. It is hard to justify that.
Jeffrey Toobin whos is a Legal Analyst, seems to forget the House of Representatives justifies the Senate. I'll provide the link to the rest of the article, but what do you think is the size of the senate justified or not? Senate
Originally posted by BomSquad
reply to post by denynothing
Sounds like someone needs to go back and read the constitution. The Senate was created to represent the individual States, not the people of those States.
The House of Representatives was created to represent the people of the United States.
This is why Wyoming has 1 Representative and California has 53.
I do not recall anyone complaining that California has 1/8 of the total number of seats in the House....
Originally posted by The Old American
You can't have a global society with those pesky individual states having sovereignty. Get rid of the Senators, and you weaken states' rights.
/TOA