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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (116946)10/15/2003 7:28:40 PM
From: FaultLine  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
At the same time these same people will argue that checks and balances have to be kept in place to keep the larger states from dominating the smaller ones.

Sounds exactly like the problems faced by the Constitutional Convention of the USA: how to keep the populous states from simply rolling over the smaller, less populous, states.

The larger states wield power in the population-based one-man-one-vote representation in the House of Representatives while the two-seats per state Senate allows the small states to organize over issues they hold dear. Getting anything done requires some measure of consensus in many cases.

This was fascinating problem -- the rights of people vs. the rights of states -- and a very clever and creative approach to a solution.

--fl
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