It’s widely recognized that the compromises made by the founders to protect small states are choking the country. Both the electoral college and the right of each state, no matter how small, to elect the same number of senators as states that can now be sixty times as large are ludicrously undemocratic. When these compromises were made, the object was to protect a few small states (Rhode Island, Delaware and New Hampshire, but also Georgia, which had a very small population). Things have gotten much worse due to the admission of large numbers of states that will always have very small populations and which are likely to remain backward for many decades. When the talent pool available in each state is analyzed, the results are even more dismal.
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