States and Counties are No Longer Represented

[Keith Broaders]

Counties are No Longer Represented

The first step in restoring a republican form of government is to restore the representation of the counties.  The counties in Florida were represnterdin the state legislature  since 1845.

Up until 1968 we had a bicameral legislature with one House to Represent the people and a second House to represent the counties. This gaves the rural counties of north Florida a voice and an ability to prevent the metropolitan counties from completely dominating the smaller riural counties.

The rural counties lost their suffrage in the state senate in 1968 and we now have two houses representing just one constituency.

Like the States , the counties need to have a voice. Currently Miami Dadew County has 6 senators and the 13 Counties in the Florida's 3rd Senatorial District have only one senator..

Deprivmg the counties of a voice in the senate erases the checks and balances we once had to prevent the tyranny of the majority.

Thanks to the efforts of Chief Justice Earl Warren and his fellow Sipreme Court clowns they exceeded their constitutional authority and destroyed the checks and balances that had existed in the legislatures of the states.

In Article I Section 4 it clearly delegates to the states the authoruty orgamize their legislative bodies and the Supreme Court had no Constitutional authority to compel the states to discontinue allowing their counties to be represented in the state's legislature.

The Court ruled that the represrntation in the upper houses of the state legislatures was over represented and that representation in both of the state's  twp houses needed to be based on population.

They reasoned that it was constitutional for the states to be equally represented in the senate, but it was uncomstititional for the counties to be represnted in the  states.

Without this important check, tthe  rural counties are destined to be gpverned by the the will of the majority of people living in the counties with the largest populations.

The founders wanted the states to be represented in the U.S. Senate and the Counties to be represented in the states. 

This change made it possible for the large cities and counties to completely dominate the smaller rural communities. With the original model, both the House and the Senate would need to agree before legislative actions could be taken.

In essence, the  opinion of the Supreme Court disenfranchised the rural counties and made the tyranny of the majority possible.

Supreme Court decisions are not laws, they are merely the opinions of a panel of unelected and unaccountable lawyers.

Every state has a right to be represented in the U.S. Senate and every County has a right to be represented in the legislatures of the states