What kind of representative democracy today says that Wyoming and Rhode Island should have as much voting power as Texas and California? Don't reply to me that we don't like in a democracy we live in a "republic." This bores me.
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Lots of folks mistaking my normative argument for a positive one. That is, I'm arguing that the division of power should not be this way given today's equality norms. I'm not questioning why the Senate was constructed to equalize power among different sized states.
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But almost never have my mentions been full of such vitriol, between responses to this post and Republican gloating in response to my post on end of blue slips for judicial nominations.
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Rs had already stopped abiding by them under Hatch. Leahy naively maintained the norm unilaterally. Those days are now necessarily over.
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