I like the new category of History. It helps a lot. Keeping the Neatorama functional for mobile use is a good idea -- that's the future, not 11-inch screens on desktops.
"However, it's obvious that reforms are needed. the organization of the states should be altered."
Well, possibly. But a fundamental concept in the American republic is that the states are not administrative subdivisions of the whole, but by themselves, sovereign states. Hence the use of the term "state" rather than "province". If the United States were (plural form of the verb) dissolved, the states would, legally speaking, continue to exist as governing entities.
Sure, some electorates have disproportionate voting power in the Senate due to low populations, but that's how the system was intentionally designed. Maybe it was a bad idea, but the map's creator is wrong to suggest that the system has broken down. This is the system working as it was supposed to.
It's also worth noting that the mapmaker's objective would require a constitutional amendment, as Article 4, Section 3 reads:
"New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress."
Indeed. Therefore, let us try to build a bridge out of him, and we will know for sure.
Whoa -- chill people. No cussing at people, no personal attacks. Keep it civil.
I mean, C3PO would have zero chance of bedding Tasha Yar....
"However, it's obvious that reforms are needed. the organization of the states should be altered."
Well, possibly. But a fundamental concept in the American republic is that the states are not administrative subdivisions of the whole, but by themselves, sovereign states. Hence the use of the term "state" rather than "province". If the United States were (plural form of the verb) dissolved, the states would, legally speaking, continue to exist as governing entities.
Sure, some electorates have disproportionate voting power in the Senate due to low populations, but that's how the system was intentionally designed. Maybe it was a bad idea, but the map's creator is wrong to suggest that the system has broken down. This is the system working as it was supposed to.
It's also worth noting that the mapmaker's objective would require a constitutional amendment, as Article 4, Section 3 reads:
"New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress."
But it is an interesting looking map. Good find.