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You do understand why DC, the governmental and administrative capital is not a state don't you? Why don't you do some research?
Are the residents of the District of Columbia not taxpaying residents of the United States of America? Do they not have the right to representation?
We know that the residents of DC have been asking to have their status changed for some time now, is it your opinion that laws and zoning of this nature cannot be changed? That they are set in stone?
Certainly slavery laws were not set in stone. Slavery was abolished some time ago. Was that something that just shouldn't have happened in your mind too?
And as for the small populations being represented first in the house (with EC electors of the same number) and then being represented as states (with EC electors of the same number); what you see there as disproportionate representation is the only thing we have preserving a federal system.
You might think the federal system would best be annulled and done away with for a fully democratic electoral system , or equal representation (requiring losing the Senate) in its place, but did you ever consider the consequences of that? If that were the case, there would be no place in the country you could go to to find relief from an overburdening system, no competition for new ways of solving old problems. That would be a system that would level us all to the lowest common denominator. Now when the taxes get to be too high in New Jersey a person, company, or corporation can move to Florida or Texas.
Eliminate the federal system by devouring the states and that option is gone forever. Don't think it can't happen. It can and it will.
And how do those small states milk the larger states? Name the ways. You should have a short list let us have it right now.
So, you feel that the only way American citizens can be effectively represented is by counting some votes multiple times, making some sort of, I don't know, 3/5ths compromise? or in this case a 1/3rd compromise? Hmm, why does that sound so familiar?