{"id":1168,"date":"2011-10-19T17:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2011-10-19T18:36:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T00:36:03","slug":"a-change-to-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/10\/a-change-to-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"A change to the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was thinking about my idea of setting up the House of Representatives to have one representative per 100 000 citizens<\/a>. While that would increase the House from 435 to ~3100\u00a0 right now<\/a>, it would leave the Senate at 100, 2 Senators per State.<\/p>\n

Let’s also increase the Senate to have 6 Senators per state. The Senators continue to serve 6 year terms and they continue to be elected on their current schedule. But three Senators would be elected in each election and the three top vote-getters would get the office. So the result will end up with each state probably having a Republican, a Democrat and a Third Party type – or a second Rep. or Dem. depending on the vote totals. \u00a0 I think this would give popular 3rd party candidates a chance to be heard on the national stage as well as providing a moderating influence on the two-party duocracy we have today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was thinking about my idea of setting up the House of Representatives to have one representative per 100 000 citizens. While that would increase the House from 435 to ~3100\u00a0 right now, it would leave the Senate at 100, 2 Senators per State. Let’s also increase the Senate to have 6 Senators per state. … Continue reading A change to the Senate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-iQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}