• yeahiknow3@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That’s one of the main reasons that the US is classified as a flawed democracy. A vote in California has something like 1/200th the influence on federal policy as a vote in Wyoming or Alaska.

    “The Senate was designed, as part of the separation of powers, to check the impulses of the House and the popular will.”(1)

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      6 months ago

      "The Senate was designed, as part of the separation of powers, to check the impulses of the House and the popular will.”

      And that is a worthy consideration, but how does this help?