[lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 18 13:57:24 PST 2004


Kevin Robert Dean wrote:


> >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



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