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melm00se

(5,100 posts)
23. Point of fact
Mon Jan 3, 2022, 11:14 AM
Jan 2022
As long as Wyoming and Montana have the same number of Senators as NY and California...


This will not change.

Why?

Article I, section 3:

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state...


Article V:

...no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.


So to change this

1. there would have to be a change in Article I, section 3.
2. there would have to be a change to Article V.

This would require at least 1, if not 2, constitutional amendments. Do you really think that Montana (66%), Idaho (60%), Wyoming (66%), New Mexico (46%), North Dakota (55%), South Dakota (55%), Nebraska (45%), Maine (47%), New Hampshire (41%), Vermont (51%), Rhode Island (15%), Arkansas (57%), Alaska (65%) and Iowa (44%) would willing line up to give away their influence at the federal level? I cannot think of any possible compromise or promise made to get these states to vote for changing this bedrock principle.

(Remember: many of the smaller states are pejoratively referred to as "flyover" states and don't think for a second that they don't know that and won't forget that).

(Finally, give some thought as to why I added the percentages listed after each of these states and what they indicate..I am sure you will figure it out).

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crickets AndyS Dec 2021 #1
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Oh Andy, I just gave ya a statement of fact. LiberatedUSA Dec 2021 #4
If that's the way you interpreted my response to your AndyS Dec 2021 #5
Gun control supporters are pretty irrelevant as well hack89 Dec 2021 #6
7 out of 8 ain't bad . . . AndyS Dec 2021 #7
But don't you need national legislation to solve gun violence? hack89 Dec 2021 #8
One step at a time. We are following the Gunner model AndyS Dec 2021 #9
So you are thinking very long term? hack89 Dec 2021 #10
All of them . . . AndyS Dec 2021 #11
Happy to see you are retaining your sense of humor hack89 Dec 2021 #12
Back atcha'. AndyS Dec 2021 #13
Not in my lifetime fortunately hack89 Dec 2021 #14
I don't know which is more sad, AndyS Dec 2021 #15
Except there have been "tipping points" every year hack89 Dec 2021 #16
If your best friend is a Republican supreme court and a money grubbing AndyS Dec 2021 #18
Ok. Nt hack89 Dec 2021 #19
Well, Democrats have abdicated protecting my civil right to bear arms krispos42 Dec 2021 #22
You are either completely misreading the indicators . . . Surf Fishing Guru Dec 2021 #17
Looks like you did a bad copy-paste of photo captions krispos42 Dec 2021 #21
Except now the Republicans control the governor's seat and the House of Delegates krispos42 Dec 2021 #20
Point of fact melm00se Jan 2022 #23
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