An extremely narrow minded and partisan professor of constitutional law from Harvard University (Vicki C. Jackson) argues to change the U.S. Senate via the U.S. Constitution!
That an elite university such as Harvard employs such mediocre professors is more than curious! How much tuition do they charge?
Harvard University seems to be oblivious of:
- The U.S. Constitution would not have been ratified had it not been for strong protections of the rights of the individual states (e.g. equal representation in the second legislative body, the Senate)
- In order to form a more perfect union, federalism was very important key element to the Founding Fathers and Mothers
- Just because the U.S. Constitution is now more than 200 years old does not mean it is seriously flawed! This is obviously a non sequitur argument! E.g. the Magna Carta is a much older magnificient document of human political achievement than the U.S. Constitution. It is anything, but "out of touch"!
- The members of the U.S. House of Representatives are proportional according to the population of the 50 states. Further, the U.S. President is elected by the entire eligible population (if you ignore/skip the Electoral College)!
"... She is the author of Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era (2010), and coauthor, with Mark Tushnet, of Comparative Constitutional Law (3d ed. 2014), a course book in the field. ...
Many analysts and citizens believe that the Constitution, more than 230 years old, is out of touch with contemporary America. ...
The requirement that each state have the same number of votes in the Senate gives unjustifiably disproportionate voting power to small minorities of the population. Wyoming, with a 2021 population of about 579,000, has the same two senators as California, with a 2021 population of about 39,238,000. The voting power of residents of Wyoming in the Senate is thus roughly 68 times greater than that of Californians. ...
While it is not uncommon that small subnational units in federal systems receive some extra voting power in the national legislature, this population ratio for states with equal voting power in the Senate is extraordinary, creating a significant democratic deficit. ..."
Many analysts and citizens believe that the Constitution, more than 230 years old, is out of touch with contemporary America. ...
The requirement that each state have the same number of votes in the Senate gives unjustifiably disproportionate voting power to small minorities of the population. Wyoming, with a 2021 population of about 579,000, has the same two senators as California, with a 2021 population of about 39,238,000. The voting power of residents of Wyoming in the Senate is thus roughly 68 times greater than that of Californians. ...
While it is not uncommon that small subnational units in federal systems receive some extra voting power in the national legislature, this population ratio for states with equal voting power in the Senate is extraordinary, creating a significant democratic deficit. ..."
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