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Show 1 iVot More, ,'eer J The movement for reapportionment of representation in J the- House of Representatives is followed by a movement for a (Jj constitutional amendment to re-make the Senate, each state l'j to elect senators, according to population, with a minimum of ' j two senators for the small states. 1 4 The argument is that democracy means government by li the majority and the senate represents government by the " minority. Jt' Indisputable is the assertion that the present condition L is grossly unfair, in respect of both the House and the Senate ; l) but, it by no means follows that a larger House and Senate, elected upon a more equitable apportionment, would bring us (', closer to democracy, government by the majority. 1 We haven't government by democracy, the majority. In presidential elections, not 75 per cent of the enfranchised i' vote, some 40 per cent of whom choose an administration which is not only the executive branch of government but s: which has the makings of the judicial branch, by and with ,j! the consent of a Senate that is certainly elected by a minority. The inaction of the potential vote in state and municipal elec- Lions is still more marked. In fact, government by the minor-j minor-j ity prevails in respect of the nation and throughout all the j. divisions of the nation and it requires a decidedly abnormal imagination to vision a cure ion increase of the number of offices to be filled by minority votes. One of the great curses of present day government is over-gvernment too many laws, laws actually imposed by q the minority. A Congressional committee has just reported re-codification of Federal laws There- are over fourteen x thousands of them. Enough to utterly discourage and defeat the best citizen amongst us in an effort to keep out of jail or get into heaven. ( Better government, more democracy in more law-makers r and more laws? No, but in better law-makers and better laws and better realization that the highest, most urgent duty r of patriotism is to serve as an active, potent member of the rj democracy. |