I know, I know . . . we’ve had threads on this.
One solution that has been proposed is enact an amendment that would give the House (and only the House) the authority to enact legislation by itself, strip the Senate of most of its powers, and reduce it to a purely advisory body, like the British House of Lords.
My thinking is, it would be proper to enact an amendment, by the usual 3/4 majority, to delete that bolded passage in Article V; and then to pass another amendment, by 3/4 majority, to abolish the Senate.
But, yes, I don’t expect either amendment could get the 3/4. Yet. But someday, maybe. The important thing is to keep the issue alive, keep harping on it, and eventually, minds might change. After all, the idea of women’s suffrage once looked like a nonstarter, since it would have to be enacted by all-male statesmen accountable to an all-male electorate – but the suffragettes just wouldn’t shut up, and eventually, they got their way.
No, I don’t – it just seems intuitively obvious, because America has always been a highly nomadic society, and more so now than ever. How many Americans, nowadays, will die in the same state where they were born? Thomas Jefferson spoke of Virginia as “my country.” How many Americans (even Texans!) would think of their state that way today? Maybe some Alaskans and some Hawaiians, and that’s about it.
While there may indeed be 22 million residents of Texas, I assure you that there are not 22 million Texans. Our citizenship requirements are quite strict.
A friend of mine is an Army recruiter and he is allowed to claim Texas as his home state for tax reasons. He has never lived a day of his life there.
Just because we don’t make someone pay taxes don’t mean he’s a Texan.
I am reminded of a passage I once read (in The Nine Nations of North America, by Joel Garreau) about a legendary Texas gunslinger who claimed to have a dozen notches on his gun, “not counting Mexicans.”
If each State has zero Senators, then they each have equal sufferage. 