[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

It's interesting that you mentioned Rhode Island. Let's contrast that state with our smallest province, PEI.

Rhode Island has a population of just over 1 million, or roughly 0.3% of the national population. PEI has a population of about 140,000, about 0.4% of the total national population. Yet in the US senate, Rhode island has only 2% of the total seats, whereas PEI, under your "two senators per province" proposal, would have 10% of the total representation. How can you justify that?

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In other words, Rhode Island gets about five times the representation in the senate that they would have gotten if senate seats were divided based on population rather than by state. They're certainly over-represented, but it's not that bad considering that each state only controls 2% of the senate. If PEI were to be given 10% of the senate seats, though, they would have twenty-five times as much representation as their population would dictate. That doesn't sit right with me.

It's not based on population....it's based on region as he stated.