The nearly 10,000,000 people living in Los Angeles County could not survive without the nearly 2 billion gallons of water supplied annually by the other 56 counties in California.
Without the water supplied from other counties. Los Angeles would become a ghost town.
Because L A County controls the state legislature the residents of the other counties have virtually no say ,
When all of the counties were represented in the Califirnia State Legislatire they had a voice, but when the Supreme Court ruled that the state's practice of equally representing the counties was unconstitutional the counties lost their voice.
The two U.S. Senators don't represent the people of the entire state, they represent the people of LA County.
After extensive debate, the framers of the Constitution agreed to create the House with representation based on Proportiomal Representation and the Senate based on equal representation.
States with twice as many people would be entitled to twice as many representatatives.and as the popularion of a state increased over time the ratio between the number of people and the number of representatives would remain constant.
The Founding Fathers established that each state would be entitled to one representative for every 30,000 inhabitants.
In Federalist 55 - Madison addressed a range of important issues, including the proper size of the House of Representatives, the role of representation in a republican government, and the importance of civic republican virtue.
In Federalist 56 - One of the criticisms raised against the Constitution was that there were too few members in the House of Representatives to adequately represent constituents.
The rule reads: “The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every Thirty Thousand.” This clause was intended to limit the size of Congressional District, not to limit the number of Congressional representatives
How Our Republic Became a Democracy At the Constitutional; Comvention the most hotly comstested debate was over how the states would be represented in Comgress.
In the Congress under the Articles of Comfederation all of the states were equally represemted. The states like Virginia which had a large population believed that equal represenmtation favored the small states and gave them an unfair advantage over the large states. James Madison proposed what became known as tthe Virginia Plan which allocated seats in the House of Representatives to be based on the population..
The Virginia Plan, which favored the large states was unacceptable to the small states and neither side was wulling to budge.
Roger Sherman od Connecticut broke the impass when he proposed a compromise that would create a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives based on proportional representation and a Senate based on equal representation.
This legislative model prevented the large states from dominating the small states
Following the examplem all of the states adopted the same bicameral legislative model to protect their rural counties from a tyranny of the larger metropolitan counties.
When the 17th Amendment was fraudulently ratified the state legislatures lost their voice in the senate which turned the our bicameral legislature into a unicameral legislatire with two houses representing the people.
In Article V there is an amendment protection clause stating . . . . . . no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
When the 17th A,mendment was fraudulently ratified our bicameral legislature oir republic became a democracy.
In the 1960's the Supreme Court riled that it was uncomstitutional for the counties of a state to be equally represented in their states legislature. The court rupef that the states could be rqually represented in the U.S. Senate but it was unconstitutional for the counties to be equally represented in the tates.
According to the provisions in the Tenth Amendment any power not delegated to the government of the United States that are not prohibited to the states are reserved to the states and to the people.
The Supreme Court rulings on apportionment in the legislatures of thee states was ourside of their Constitutional jurisdiction.
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Los Angeles County
The nearly 10,000,000 people living in Los Angeles County could not survive without the nearly 2 billion gallons of water supplied annually by the other 56 counties in California.
Without the water supplied from other counties. Los Angeles would become a ghost town.
Because L A County controls the state legislature the residents of the other counties have virtually no say ,
When all of the counties were represented in the Califirnia State Legislatire they had a voice, but when the Supreme Court ruled that the state's practice of equally representing the counties was unconstitutional the counties lost their voice.
The two U.S. Senators don't represent the people of the entire state, they represent the people of LA County.
Proportional Representation
After extensive debate, the framers of the Constitution agreed to create the House with representation based on Proportiomal Representation and the Senate based on equal representation.
States with twice as many people would be entitled to twice as many representatatives.and as the popularion of a state increased over time the ratio between the number of people and the number of representatives would remain constant.
The Founding Fathers established that each state would be entitled to one representative for every 30,000 inhabitants.
In Federalist 55 - Madison addressed a range of important issues, including the proper size of the House of Representatives, the role of representation in a republican government, and the importance of civic republican virtue.
In Federalist 56 - One of the criticisms raised against the Constitution was that there were too few members in the House of Representatives to adequately represent constituents.
The rule reads: “The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every Thirty Thousand.” This clause was intended to limit the size of Congressional District, not to limit the number of Congressional representatives
How Our Republic Became a Democracy
At the Constitutional; Comvention the most hotly comstested debate was over how the states would be represented in Comgress.
In the Congress under the Articles of Comfederation all of the states were equally represemted. The states like Virginia which had a large population believed that equal represenmtation favored the small states and gave them an unfair advantage over the large states. James Madison proposed what became known as tthe Virginia Plan which allocated seats in the House of Representatives to be based on the population..
The Virginia Plan, which favored the large states was unacceptable to the small states and neither side was wulling to budge.
Roger Sherman od Connecticut broke the impass when he proposed a compromise that would create a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives based on proportional representation and a Senate based on equal representation.
This legislative model prevented the large states from dominating the small states
Following the examplem all of the states adopted the same bicameral legislative model to protect their rural counties from a tyranny of the larger metropolitan counties.
When the 17th Amendment was fraudulently ratified the state legislatures lost their voice in the senate which turned the our bicameral legislature into a unicameral legislatire with two houses representing the people.
In Article V there is an amendment protection clause stating . . . . . . no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
When the 17th A,mendment was fraudulently ratified our bicameral legislature oir republic became a democracy.
In the 1960's the Supreme Court riled that it was uncomstitutional for the counties of a state to be equally represented in their states legislature. The court rupef that the states could be rqually represented in the U.S. Senate but it was unconstitutional for the counties to be equally represented in the tates.
According to the provisions in the Tenth Amendment any power not delegated to the government of the United States that are not prohibited to the states are reserved to the states and to the people.
The Supreme Court rulings on apportionment in the legislatures of thee states was ourside of their Constitutional jurisdiction.
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