Commenting on the theme by Neal Peirce in my previous post, George Mason's Bob Nelson manages to forget an explicit Constitutional protection in this post: "Is the U.S. Senate Obsolete?".
As far as I can tell, he's annoyed that small-population, rural states get the same representation in the U.S. Senate as, say California and other overgrown states. I appreciate that the Federal government has wildly overstepped its Constitutional powers all across the board, but it's not only the Senate's fault, and that's the one place we small states can defend ourselves from the bullying of big states.
That's why the Constitution has a single provision which can never be amended away: the equal representation of states in the Senate.
Should we get rid of that? Insert my post title here.
UPDATE: Of course, I'm asking rhetorically. It's not even possible to get rid of that!
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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