On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:44:44 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:


And it's a point that a lot of people don't understand - the democratic
republic vs democracy. The states are set up as popular democracies and
the Federal government is set up as a functional republic.

Personally, I think the system works fine just as it is with one
exception. We need to break up the big states into smaller states.
There is way too much ordinate political power in the larger states what
overwhelms the smaller, more conservative states.

Any problems we have, are not worth changing the Constitution.
Personally, I think that is something that shouldn't be taken lightly.
I'd also point out that the converse is also true. Why should a sparsely
populated state's Senators have the same power as a large state? I'd
also point out, the smaller states tend to have longer entrenched
politicos, thereby increasing their power.

And more to the point, why in the hell would I want to give more
conservative states more power? ;-)

I think the field needs to be evened out a little to bring balance back
into our legislatures, Congress and the Presidency.