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by iso1631 83 days ago
Is it fair that California has more congresspeople than North Dakota?

Parliament is the unit which represent the people

Council (which is 1 country 1 vote) is what represents the countries.
1 comments
sgt 82 days ago
Yes it's fair that it has more to a degree, but North Dakota can't have literally proportional since it will completely swallowed up on Congress. How does this work in the US?
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vrganj 81 days ago
Why shouldn't it be swallowed up? Why should a persons vote in North Dakota be much more powerful than one in California?
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sgt 80 days ago
Because if you consider each state to be a "country"... these states didn't sign up so that they could be swallowed up by another state having a very high population growth.

That said, California is generating more GDP so obviously I'm not arguing that they should be completely equally represented 1:1

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