reverence for the constitution

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 22 15:31:01 PDT 1999


Jordan Hayes wrote:


> From dhenwood at panix.com Sat May 22 14:32:12 1999
>
> How is it defensible on democratic grounds that Wyoming should
> have the same number of senators as California?
>
>Because it's balanced by California's representation in the House.

Eh? What kind of democracy is one "balanced" like that? One proportional body, the other a functionally conservative body based on geographic caprices?

Doug



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