# Is It Time For the Senate to Go?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 4, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-for-the-senate-to-go/608354 "2012-01-04T06:49:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-for-the-senate-to-go/608354/132 "2012-01-11T21:29:17Z")

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> [@A one-house legislature is better than a two-house legislature](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-one-house-legislature-is-better-than-a-two-house-legislature/608862/78):
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> One man one vote has _never_ been a principle for anything other than the ballot box to directly elect the representatives themselves. In a Senate election or a House election, it is one man, one vote. Each individual gets to cast one vote in each race in their district, no one gets more than one vote. What happens at the Federal level in terms of the portion of political power a region’s representatives receive relative to the population of that region is not at all related to the concept of “one man, one vote.”

Case law says you are wrong.

_Reynolds v. Sims_ mandated redrawing legislative districts after every census to ensure, “equality under the law.” That’s the phrase to remember. They didn’t change the Federal Senate because it was grandfathered in by the Constitution, but they didn’t decide by analogy that unequal districts must be OK otherwise.

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