The Senate's 46 Democrats got 20 million more votes than its 54 Republicans

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42. It may be time to add some senators

When the Founding Fathers ratified the Constitution, the entire nation's population was 3.5 million free inhabitants.

In 2013, the state of California had 38.33 million free inhabitants. One state.

The problem with relying on the wisdom and foresight of men who lived over 200 years ago is they weren't able to foresee the nation as it exists today.

I think you could solve a LOT of problems fairly simply.

First, make Congress nonpartisan. They can run as Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, Constitutionalists, Pot Party or whatever, but once they actually GET to Congress they must work together, and the party caucuses will be dissolved.

Then add senators as follows: every state gets two. One will be considered the "state's senator." This is the one from that state who's been there longest. The other will be the senator for the state's first ten congressional districts. If a state has more than ten, it'll have one for districts 11 through 20, one for districts 21 through 30 and so on until they run out of districts. The district senator only has to get votes from the districts he or she represents, the state senator runs in the whole state.

And finally, change Congressional terms to four years coinciding with the president's term, and senatorial terms to eight also coinciding with presidential election years.