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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.

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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.

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.

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