[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Some state legislatures had a house that was appointed geographically, such as with one or two state Senators per county, meaning, like you said, that one or more big cities couldn't dominate the entire state. Alabama, for example, had one state Senator per county.

Then Reynolds v. Sims ruined the whole thing in 1964 by mandating, unconstitutionally, that all state legislative houses have representation proportional to the population (one man, one vote).

[Freedom4US]

Yep, thank you for that. I knew it was a patchwork, depending on the state.

There are just so many Supreme Court decisions that have profoundly damaged this experiment in self-rule over the decades and this is just ONE of them - and people are generally unaware how that happened They know things are completely FUBAR, but they don’t know why.