Small states seem irrelevant because of the electoral college.
Jee-zus, 21, are you completely, totally and irrevocably unaware of history??
The founders faced a dilemma as to how to guarantee to small states - Delaware, Vermont - that they would not be consumed by New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In Federalist No. 62, Madison wrote:
"The equality of representation in the senate is another point, which, being evidently the result of compromise between the opposite pretensions of the large and the small states, does not call for much discussion. If indeed it be right that among a people thoroughly incorporated into one nation, every district ought to have a proportional share in the government; and that among independent and sovereign states bound together by a simple league,
the parties however unequal in size, ought to have an equal share in the common councils, it does not appear to be without some reason, that in a compound republic partaking both of the national and federal character,
the government ought to be founded on a mixture of the principles of proportional and equal representation."
The theory of a state being given representation as to the election of the President that combines both population-based representation, well as the principle of equity among the states, is a founding part of the Constitution, Article 2, Section 1. The founders once again brilliantly brought about that balance: "Electors,
equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
Therefore, the electoral college apportions its delegates in significant part based on population ("the whole number of ... Representatives"), as well as on an equal basis ("the whole number of Senators"). Those who turn up their nose at the electoral college are imbeciles, who know nothing of this great nation's founding, and are instead preening wanna-be queens.
Including Hyphen, the sniveling socialist who thinks that the rich can pay for every freebie fantasy she has, while wearing a $3,700 ensemble that she somehow affords on a part-time bartender's salary. Ignorant ditz. Moron.
Finally, the United States is the greatest representative government in the history of the planet. The United States is the greatest economy the world has ever seen. The United States has done more good for the world than any other nation in history. And dumbshits think that taking out one of the foundational principles of this nation is a good idea??
