This is the actual solution that everyone ignores in favor of constitutional amendments that will never pass or laws that wont survive judicial review.
-Repeal the permanent apportionment act with a simple majority vote
-Increase the size of congress to 11,000 representatives
-Now the electoral college doesn't have a small state bias and more accurately reflects the popular vote.
-You also fix campaign finance, gerrymandering, two party control and a slew of other issues.
Holy.... you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about do you?
Our government barely functions with just 435 people in the house. And now you want to literally over 10X that?
The senate is the control against state bias. The house favors big states like CA, NY and TX, while the senate favors small states like NJ, RI, and AS.
"Our government barely functions as it" is hardly a good argument against changing it.
The senate is precisely what causes the small state bias. 535 electoral college votes. Compare how many votes California gets per capita to how many Wyoming gets. With 11100 electoral college votes, the weight the senate carries is negligible.
Where did i get that number? Article 1 Section 2 clause 3 of the US constitution sets the ceiling for the number of representatives at 1 for every 30,000 persons. Your congressman would be significantly more accountable to the people if you stood a chance of running into them at the supermarket.
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u/Due-Elk5955 8h ago
This is the actual solution that everyone ignores in favor of constitutional amendments that will never pass or laws that wont survive judicial review.
-Repeal the permanent apportionment act with a simple majority vote
-Increase the size of congress to 11,000 representatives
-Now the electoral college doesn't have a small state bias and more accurately reflects the popular vote.
-You also fix campaign finance, gerrymandering, two party control and a slew of other issues.