"Does NBC not understand why all states were given 2 and only 2 senators?"
Of course they do - the point he was making is that states with small population get the same representation in the Senate as those with large populations. His argument was that Senate representation should be closer to what we have in the House. It's simple mathematics - why should a state like Utah have the same representation in the Senate as states like NY or CA? On a per capita basis, it makes no sense.
This is the Constitution we're talking about, not the Ten Commandments - it can be changed, and there is a procedure for doing that. There are things in the Constitution that made sense 200 years ago but no longer made sense as the country grew. All of them would require amendments to change and may never happen, but they include how Senators are distributed, the archaic concept of an Electoral College for the presidential election, the lack of term limits for Congress and the federal courts, etc. |
