Little-Acorn
Gold Member
This is part of an effort, of course, to take more power away from the states and give it to the central (Federal) government, thus undermining one of the fundamental principles of the Constitution.Stat came up with a House with a 1000 representatives. The population would be divided by a thousand and then districts would be drawn nationally based on the census to accommodate 1/1000 of the population irrespective of state borders.
The Constitution originally provided a two-house legislature, to accommodate two groups that had very different needs and goals.
The House was to represent the people directly, and so it was elected by the people directly, and the people had the right to throw out their representative if he didn't do what they wanted.
The Senate's purpose was to represent the state governments, and si its members were appointed by the state government directly. And the state govt had the right ot throw out its senator(s) if they didn't do what the state government wanted. The reason for this, was because the Senate's main job was to make sure the Federal government couldn't take powers away from the separate states if the states didn't want them to.
Inevitably, the leftists' first move when they wanted to dismantle our free government, was to attack the Senate. They sponsored an amendment taking away the power of state govts to appoint their Senator, and basically turned the Senate into a weak version of the House. Then nobody was left to resist the leftists' attempt to strip powers from the States and turn it over to the Federal govt.
Now I see they are trying to weaken it even further, and even dissolve it and form a one-body legislature with no desire to protect state sovereignity at all.
It's not more than I expect from the big-govt liberals on the forum. They have had no other goal from the very beginning.
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