[ApplegateRanch]

The Senate was intended to represent the rights and interests of states at the national level. Nothing more, nothing less. That is now gone.

This also laid the foundation for SCOTUS to rule that state senates had to be apportioned "one man, one vote" also, thus abolishing the one or two state senators/county as an upper chamber, at least in California. It totally decimated the influence and balance of rural counties in state legislatures.

[muawiyah]

States do not require more than one house. Many would be better served by abolishing the legislature entirely, simply electing a governor, and having him or her contract out the operation to the lowest bidder.

Privatization of government was a way of life in Iceland for many hundreds of years, and they proved it worked. If government illserved the people, they simply bid for services from someone who could do well.

In other states, Massachusetts and New York for example, it really doesn't matter how big the legislature is ~ if they're not already in irons when elected, they soon will be eh?!

[Remember_Salamis]

Thank you UNRATIFIED 14th Amendment!