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In reply to the discussion: A 50 state strategy requires a big tent [View all]BarackTheVote
(938 posts)It needs to be challenged in court on the regular. Thus far, judges have refused to make a ruling on it because of "lack of standing." But when 45* can threaten a state like California with *sanctions* because it has way too few representatives in congress to make any kind of effective retaliation, how can you argue that this does not amount to taxation without representation? How can one argue that the EC is representative of the will of the people when one vote in California is worth less than half of that same one vote in Montana? This one Act completely broke our democracy and subverted every pretense of democratic principal laid out in the Constitution.
Smaller States will always have disproportionate representation because every State gets two senators. But every state should have a number of Representatives that reflects the size of its population. That's how it was intended to be.