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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Omg just vote to reopen without a wall! This is what the majority of Americans want.[/quote]

The majority of the Senate does not represent the majority of Americans. It’s a problem.[/quote]

It’s a problem, to you, that each state has two United States Senators? [/quote]

[b]It's not consistent with the principles of One Man, One Vote to have California (population 39 million) have the same number of Senators as Wyoming (population 573,000).   [/b] But then again DC (population 1.5 million) has no Senators at all, so....no one ever said the US democracy was set up in an optimal way.[/quote]

"One man one vote" means that each person gets one vote when choosing their elected officials.  It doesn't mean each person gets "one vote" on whatever legislation Congress is considering.  [/quote]

Actually, the premise of “One man one vote” was established by Reynolds v. Sims, which dealt with discrepancies in population sizes of state legislative districts.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/377/533/[/quote]

LOL...how does that at all address what I said?  [/quote]
DP here.  The Constitutional principle of assigning two Senators to each state regardless of size conflicts with the democratic principle of one man, one vote.  The Senate was expressly designed as an anti- democratic institution.  It's the Constitution, but that doesn't make it democratic.   Or good.[/quote]

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