Show Disagrees with Decision REPRESENTATION IN EVERY house of every state legislature must be based upon population and each representative must have an equal THE U. S. SUPREME COURT has Their word is the law of the Their interpretation of the Constitution is the final A BRIEF LOOK at the history of American government shows our founding fathers had a very distinct purpose in setting up the federal constitution with the House of Representatives based on population and the Senate based upon the TILE FOUNDING FATHERS recognized that the United even at that was too large a country for any group or set of ideas to THEY KNEW THAT THE PEOPLE In the cities if given control would legislate in their own interests and not in the interests of all the 13 ALSO KNEW THAT FARMERS and rural dwellers would legislate in their own interests if they were given TO THIS AND TO provide a political system in which both view points would be the founding fathers instituted a two-house legislature based on different representation so that co-operation had to be achieved or no progress would be BOTH THE CITY RESIDENT and the farmer were to be THE SITUATION HAS NOT CHANGED today when there are 50 states some so large and varied that they arc almost incomprehensible to the average IF ALL STATE LEGISLATURES were constituted in the manner the Supreme Court says is then in many states the Interests of one segment of the population would not be IT IS TRUE MOST AMERICANS live in but it is also true that several million Americans do not live in They are in the but this does not mean their viewpoints should not be listened TO PROVIDE POPULATION as the only basis for representation would do considerable damage to the United States political OURS IS A SYSTEM WHERE one group trades its votes with another group because neither has the necessary THIS BRINGS all groups with any sizeable following into the political Each group feels that it has some part in the creation and operation of the laws and the TO CHANGE THIS SYSTEM changes American politics and government in a way so drastic as to do more harm than any possible |