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California, Florida, Texas, and New York are the four most populous states in the nation, respectively.
Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, and Alaska are the four least populous states.
Yet each of these states gets 2 senators, regardless of their population.
This is blatantly unfair and must be changed.
We must abolish the two-senator-per-state system as it is unconstitutional.
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The logical flaw in the above argument is this:
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State. [U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 3, clause 1]
It’s in the frickin’ constitution. Whether or not it sounds ‘fair’ and whether or not it means that a given citizen of California only has a measly 1/18,000,000 senator each whereas a given citizen of Wyoming gets a whopping 1/280,000 of a Senator each and whether or not it means citizens of some states get ‘more’ senators than citizens of other states — it is totally constitutional.
As we discuss the arguments, pro-and-con, regarding the electoral-college-vs-popular-vote argument, let us try to keep this minor tidbit in mind:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress [U.S. Constitution, Article II, section 1]
Don’t like it? Take it up with the founders or change the constitution. But don’t assert that it’s unfair and unconstitutional.