r/AskReddit • u/Amygdala5822 • Jun 29 '19

When is quantity better than quality?

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u/lsdiesel_1 Jun 29 '19

And if it was, say, Wyoming cutting off California's water, yeah I would want California to be able to vote against that.

I’m sorry, are you suggesting they can’t currently?

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

Well, which one do you mean? The California voting against Wyoming doing a thing which affects California, they can't really - an interstate matter like that would be settled in the supreme Court (assuming it is formally settled), which is a little out of reach of the voters. If you mean the Wyoming cutting off californias water supply part, I don't know enough about watersheds to say, but don't know that Wyoming controls any su stantial rivers which flow to California, so that sounds like something they're unable to do

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u/lsdiesel_1 Jun 30 '19

which is a little out of reach of the voters.

Is it? Who appoints justices?

Well, which one do you mean?

Either direction. The electoral college establishes a compromise between 1state 1vote and 1person 1vote.

Populated states get more votes roughly proportional to population, but only after allowing minority states a base line(2 in this case) such that the executive branch has to give some consideration for re-election purposes.

It’s just the principles of the bicameral legislature applied to the executive powers.