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Subject: Re: The Truth about how the US constitution works.

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 20:54:32 12/01/00

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On December 01, 2000 at 16:01:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:

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>
>Inside the states, it _is_ one person, one vote.  At the federal level, the
>states are given an equal starting point in the electoral college (each state
>gets 2 votes regardless of the population, then a proportion of electoral
>votes matching their proportion of the total population.)
>
>The scheme makes perfect sense.  And has stood the test of time for > 200
>years.  It works and isn't broken in the least...

Well, as I've said, I don't think it works. It's a matter of what you call
democratic. You're just stating an opinion, you're not arguing WHY you think it
works. I've argued as to why I DON'T think it works. I haven't heard any
counterarguments.



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