Hey, can you pass the US citizenship test???

[sarisataka]

53. That is the point of the Senate

It places all of the states on equal footing. California has 2, Wyoming has 2.

The House accounts for population, where California has 53 Rep., equaling Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana (all 1 each), Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Hawaii, Idaho (all 2 each), Nebraska, West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah (All 3 each), Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi (all 4 each) Iowa and Connecticut (5 each) combined. Oklahoma and Oregon also have 5 Reps each.

So in the HoR It would take 23 of the smallest states to match California's vote.

If we were unicameral and based strictly on population, 9 states (California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Georgia) could dictate to the other 41 as they have 50.26% of the population.

It may not be a perfect system but it seems to insure the party not in power has some say. I would shudder to think if that few states all went 'red' how the country would look after four years.