They do. It concentrates conservatives, which helps a declining political party stay relevant.
It infuriates me that a state like Wyoming or Alaska, where they have something like a twentieth of population of California, gets the same number of senators / same votes as my state (Cali). I understand why it happened this way (slavery), but it needs to change. Bumfuck rural people matter, but they shouldn't have an outsized vote.
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)
"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?
They do. It concentrates conservatives, which helps a declining political party stay relevant.
It infuriates me that a state like Wyoming or Alaska, where they have something like a twentieth of population of California, gets the same number of senators / same votes as my state (Cali). I understand why it happened this way (slavery), but it needs to change. Bumfuck rural people matter, but they shouldn't have an outsized vote.
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)
And that is a worthy consideration, but how does this help?