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exboyfil

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7. I think the state bias of the two most powerful
Tue Jul 17, 2018, 10:33 AM
Jul 2018

portions of the government (the President and the Senate) along with the multiplier of those two controlling who becomes the federal judges has caused an irreparable rip in our country.

At our founding, Virginia was the largest state (692K with 288K of them being slaves). That represents representative power of 576K (3/5ths you know for the slaves). The smallest state was Delaware at 59K. This means that the ratio between the largest state and the smallest state was about 10x.

Now California is 39.5 M, and Wyoming is 579K. That is a 68x ratio. I can't imagine that the founders intended this to happen. It is horrifying. We also have a territory of 3 M people (Puerto Rico) that is larger than 20 states.

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