Is a democracy legitimate if votes don't weigh the same?

[eniwetok]

47. no key reforms in 225 years

The Constitution has been amended 27 times and NONE of those 27 amendments to date have reformed ANY of the core antidemocratic features of the Constitution all of which are connected with the antidemocratic concept of state suffrage... the EC, the Senate, the exclusive powers of the Senate to ratify judicial nominees or treaties, the amendment process, etc.

That's ZERO serious reform amendments in 225 years! Here's my breakdown

INDIVIDUAL & STATES RIGHTS: 1-10 plus 13th, 14th

FINE TUNING THE CONSTITUTION: 11th, 12th, 16th, 20th, 22ed, 25th, 27th

PROHIBITION & REPEAL: 18th, 21st

EXPANDING VOTING RIGHTS: 15th, 19th, 24th, 26th

MAKING THE CONSTITUTION MORE DEMOCRATIC: 17th, 23ed but neither of these amendments do anything to reform antidemocratic representation or the possibility of minority rule.

The bigger danger we tend to be blind to is demographic changes between the largest and smallest population states is making the Constitution increasingly antidemocratic and reformproof. Where in the 1790s the largest population differential was something like 15:1... maybe 20:1, it's now 70:1.