> >18) Abolish the Senate ( Supreme Court interpretation that >current language
>>in the Constitution allows the Senate to be abolished)
>
>Just curious---I always forget why we wanna do this...It's been
>explained to me before but I forget...
Because it's deeply undemocratic - California has one senator per 17.6 million people; Wyoming, per 250,000 people, a ratio of over 70 to 1. It was consciously designed as a conservatizing force - I think Jefferson described it as a kind of saucer meant to cool hot tea.
Doug