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It has always been this imbalanced. That is the point... the Senate balances out the House (which is apportioned by population already) to ensure that large population areas can't force policy and laws that are onerous on small (population) states. In other words, this is not a bug, it's a feature.

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The population disparity is much, much greater now than when the compromise was designed and approved, is is accelerating.

When 15% of the population can control the most powerful house of Congress there is a problem.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I don't see it that way. The point is that our senators and representatives really need to work together to end divisiveness. While that isn't currently happening, I see that as the problem rather than the way the system is laid out.

With the senate, it's important to frame thoughts not as a percentage of the population, but as a percentage of the states that make up the United States.

I would say that if 15% of the population could control the house of representatives, then there would be something wrong.

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