The 17 smallest US states add up to 7.46% of the population. If Senators represent their electorate, 3.74% of voters can block impeachment.
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You can make the percentage arbitrarily small if you consider that it only takes a plurality to be elected.
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All systems have crazy boundaries (Arrow's theorem and so on) ... and elections have 3% error bars due to weather/day/whatever
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Functional democracies operate on working majorities with reasonable consensus. 51% == right is a kind of magical thinking
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