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I don't really have an issue with the way the senate is setup, since that was intentional. My issue is with the house, where we are supposed to have equal representation, but don't.


> I don’t really have an issue with the way the senate is setup, since that was intentional.

Why is bad intent less bad than bad accident.

> My issue is with the house, where we are supposed to have equal representation, but don’t.

House representation was supposed to be approximately equal limited by granularity and it remains approximately equal limited by granularity.


>House representation was supposed to be approximately equal limited by granularity and it remains approximately equal limited by granularity.

But the "limited by granularity" part is growing more and more limited. The size of the House originally grew as the size of the population grew. Once we capped the size of the House, we lost relative granularity allowing this problem worsen as the gap between the smallest and largest congressional districts increased.


It was intentional and a big part of it was to protect slave-owners. Evil intent does not get a pass.




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