MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell June 4, 2024 02:01:00
Represent 186 million people were defeated in a senate vote today by group of senators who represent 144 million people. the founders debated whether the number of senators should be proportional to the populations of the states. and in the end, they landed on a compromise position of two senators per state, which did not seem like an atrocious perversion of democracy at the time. because the biggest state, virginia, had only 747,000 people. but today, washington d.c., which is represented by zero senators, as basically that population. when the founders agreed, in the end, to two senators per...