what’s the point of having a second chamber if you’re going to apportion it by population as well? afaict, this is a historical oddity due to states copying the federal system but then getting squished by Reynolds v Sims, at which point it would have been really annoying to abolish the state senate. all the countries I can think of with a bicameral legislature (US, Canada, UK, Germany) have one of the chambers apportioned by something other than population.
There’s countries that use equal-population districts for both houses, but at that point it feels like the bicameralism is just copied from the US without strong reasoning (e.g. Italy, Japan, South Korea).
what’s the point of having a second chamber if you’re going to apportion it by population as well? afaict, this is a historical oddity due to states copying the federal system but then getting squished by Reynolds v Sims, at which point it would have been really annoying to abolish the state senate. all the countries I can think of with a bicameral legislature (US, Canada, UK, Germany) have one of the chambers apportioned by something other than population.
There’s countries that use equal-population districts for both houses, but at that point it feels like the bicameralism is just copied from the US without strong reasoning (e.g. Italy, Japan, South Korea).