{"id":13412,"date":"2009-08-09T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13412"},"modified":"2009-08-09T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:45:04","slug":"now-the-constitution-is-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13412","title":{"rendered":"Now the Constitution is the problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Washington Post<\/a> contains an opinion piece by what appears to be a complete moron by the name of Alec MacGillis entitled “The Gangs of DC”. The subtitle asks the question “In the Senate, Small States Wield Outsize Power. Is This What the Founders Had in Mind?” He plows right into the problem with his solution;<\/p>\n

Kent Conrad, Democrat from North Dakota (pop. 641,481, third smallest), chairman of the Budget Committee and one of the Gang of Six, does not see any problem. Asked whether it is appropriate that his vote counts as much as those of senators from states 20 times as large, he was flummoxed. “One would hope that people would support the Constitution of the United States,” said Conrad, who was reelected with 150,000 votes in 2006, when Virginia’s Jim Webb needed 1.2 million votes to win. “This was the grand bargain that was struck when the Founding Fathers determined the structure and form of the United States Congress.” He added: “Are you proposing changing the Constitution?”<\/p>\n

Well, maybe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why? States don’t have their individual interests? Since we are the United STATES of America, don’t you think our form of government should reflect the importance of States in that governance process? Even though the importance of the process has been diluted significantly by the 17th Amendment.<\/p>\n

MacGillis is concerned because uninsured Americans tend to live in larger States, he says, so smaller States, which would have to pay for the beneficiaries of the President’s healthcare plan have an equal vote. MacGillis leans towards the tyranny of the majority. Something the Constitution was written to prevent. <\/p>\n

Every time the Left can’t get what they want because of Constitutional restrictions, they want to change the Constitution. Remember the drive to do away with the Electoral College after the 2000 election? They haven’t made a move to do that, though.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for MacGillis, if he wants to change the Constitution to get rid of the Senate, it takes a vote by State – and each State gets an equal vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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