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In reply to the discussion: California has 39 million people and two senators. Wyoming has a few dozen people and two senators. [View all]Johonny
(25,220 posts)Although the constitution in no way provides a way to do that easily since the house and senate have separate powers.
I've proposed for the establishment of the senate redefining the state as sweeping out equal areas of population with the division going to a non-partisan method every ten years. In theory this is possible, in practice, this would require the states with everything to lose, giving up power.
Basically, every solution you can think of requires low population states giving up their huge amount of undeserved power, so it's very unlikely.
Still it's clearly jerrymandering built into the constitution, and it's getting silly as the population becomes more and more unbalanced. There is simply no way to explain why California should be so unrepresented in Congress (both in the house and senate). And it's no surprise California receives back less per person back from the federal government than it gives as a result.