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To be fair, small states would never agreed to the constution without the senate.

Southern states would not have agreed to the constitution without the 3/5 compromise.

The United States would not exist without these compromises. The constitition is, as CGP Grey calls it, a Compromise-titution.

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[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 22 hours ago

Disingenuous. That's 21 states and 42 senators.

Now do representatives, which was originally supposed to match population distribution.

[-] Tower@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago
[-] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Not sure why Hawaii is included in this meme. Hawaii has only had 1 Republican senator since it became a state in 1959.

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[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

Don't blame the founding fathers that all these hippies moved to California /s

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 6 points 21 hours ago

The hippies were already there. The tech CEOs and Hollywood actors are an invasive species.

[-] dnick@sh.itjust.works -2 points 23 hours ago

To be fair, it is the united ´states´, not the united ´people living on the continent´. It wouldn’t be any more fair if California was making the decisions for 20 other states, just because they happen to have a crap load of people. The federal government is kind of supposed to be making decisions and maintaining things between states, not all these decisions affecting the people so directly.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 21 hours ago

No, it would be fair if California and the 20 other states had the same say. Laws should be by people, for people. Every person should have the same voting power and political representation. In a democracy, people vote, not land, or "states", or anything else. People.

[-] ronalicious@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

to be fair? fuck that. the states represent people, just arguing 'states rights' is disingenuous at this point.

land shouldn't vote, but the way our government currently is functioning, regardless of what our slaveholding 'founding fathers' intended, is an absolute mess.

and I don't accept your argument in good faith.

edit. a word

[-] Hoohoo@fedia.io 8 points 23 hours ago

Electorates per capita work better because they give the population of a country an equal amount of electable government. Positioning them as just Californians makes them a lower class citizen of the United States with lesser representation.

It also means that criminals will recognise the power of the Republican states and side with them for effect.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

It wouldn’t be any more fair if California was making the decisions for 20 other states

U wot

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