Yeah, I'm intentionally undoing what the founders intentionally did. The Senate doesn't protect minority rights, the Senate was where the civil rights movement had to fight its toughest battles. Instead the Senate gives disproprionate power to people who live in underpopulated states.
Under my system, proportional voting, you could get more small parties in (it would probably still be two big parties, that's fairly common). Those smaller parties could represent minority views. I think that ideological diversity is more important than regional diversity.
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Date: 2008-09-25 12:17 pm (UTC)Under my system, proportional voting, you could get more small parties in (it would probably still be two big parties, that's fairly common). Those smaller parties could represent minority views. I think that ideological diversity is more important than regional diversity.