flacaltenn
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In the end -- you HAVE to have a Federation of states. Who willingly subjugate themselves to a Constitution. And your concern about slaves and minorities IS EXACTLY the concern that STATEShave in being overtaken by the "wolves'. Go read about bi-cameral legislatures and why they are prevalent in STABLE countries and why UNI-cameral legislatures are a feature of communist/socialist countries and dictators..
Your evil progressive plan to go grab Puerto Rico to enhance the "uniparty" Democrat model wouldn't work with all the "federation" language removed from the Constitution.. Why would Puerto Rico want to join into a system where THEIR "state" is a peon pauper in terms of power-sharing? Why would the smaller states want to remain in a system where their "sovereignty" is just a token joke?
That's the problem the founders faced. And why they DESIGNED a federated Republic..
Bi-cameral legislatures are just more partisan hackery and most countries have such a system due to population more than anything. NZ has just one legislative branch and we are far from communist.
And yet despite your system the people of Puerto Rico, when given the opportunity, vote not to join the US. Constantly.
New Zeland would be 26 on the list of states by population.
So, there you have it.
New Zeland gets to do what it wants with it's 4+million people.
Wisconsin (which is all we would need to kick your asses in combat) gets to do what it wants.
California (which is about 10 time larger than NZ) gets it's say.
Fuck trying to pass laws for 330,000,000 people that do justice to them all.
Not the way we were set up.
And I would expect our representation at federal level to be that of a state that has 5 million people (and no, Wisconsin wouldn't kick our arse), not to be equal to that of NY or California. After all, why should a state that pays a lot more into the federal coffers in taxes not get more representation. What is their carrot to stay in the Union?
You should ask if PEOPLE who PAY no taxes should get the same representation as those that pay the bulk. Maybe they should get 2/5ths of a vote?
It's not clear that PER CAPITA -- there's much difference in what US states contribute.. Especially because the VALUE OF MONEY and cost of living varies over a 3 times range among the different US states. So -- SAME JOB in California PAYS maybe 50% more.. But the cost of living is 100% higher. So the "taxes paid" are highly inflated in NY/Cali over what they are in Tenn/North Dakota. And higher TAXATION in the blue states ADDS to inflation in that cost of living. The latter clearly doesn't contribute much to what the Feds are owed, because its straight-away DRAIN on the economy..
It;'s complicated. MORE complicated than your lovely little lonely island.. LOL...