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Harvard releases radical proposal to fix America's democracy
A radical proposal suggests Congress declare the 127 neighborhoods in Washington DC as new states in a bid to rewrite the Constitutions so every American vote counts.
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Harvard releases radical proposal to fix America's democracy that divides Washington D.C. into 127 new states, adding enough votes in Congress to rewrite the constitution and eliminate the Electoral College
- The Proposal wants to make Washington DC's 127 neighborhoods as new states
- This would add enough votes for Congress to rewrite the Constitution
- The report calls for equal representation in both the Senate and the House
- It also suggests replacing the Electoral College with a popular vote
- The proposals wants future amendments ratified by states with most Americans
PUBLISHED: 14:21 EST, 16 January 2020 | UPDATED: 17:45 EST, 16 January 2020
Harvard has released a radical proposal to fix America's broken democracy.
Researchers suggest Congress needs to pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C. to just a few core federal buildings and declaring its 127 neighborhoods as states.
These new states would add enough votes for Congress to rewrite the Constitution in a way that 'every vote counts equally' by ratifying four amendments.
The plan entails equal representation in both the Senate and the House, replacing the Electoral College with a popular vote and modifying 'the Constitution's amendment process that would ensure future amendments are ratified by states representing most Americans.'
The authors of the proposal suggest dividing D.C. in to states because it is the only area in the US that can do it legally and every subdivision ‘voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic party in the 2016 election.
And, according to the anonymous writers, 'the Democratic caucus in Congress could be confident that new states created within the District would elect like-minded delegations to Congress.’
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Harvard has released a wild proposal to fix America's broken democracy. Researchers suggest Congress pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C. to just a few core federal buildings and declaring its 127 neighborhoods as states. Pictured are the neighborhoods in DC that the report suggests should be admitted as states
'Radical as this proposal may sound, it is no more radical than a nominally democratic system of government that gives citizens widely disproportionate voting power depending on where they live,' according to the unsigned note, entitled 'Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation'.
'The people should not tolerate a system that is manifestly unfair; they should instead fight fire with fire, and use the unfair provisions of the Constitution to create a better system.'