Steps to Create a More Democratic America

My plans to reform the structure of Congress are too big to fit in one post so they are getting divided into two posts. Part one is today while part two will be out next week. Congressional Reform Part 1 - The Senate The senate is a relic from a time before their was a national unity and a national identity. It was created to give state legislatures representatives in the federal government and to give the smaller states a say.  Today, we define ourselves as a country not the state nationalism people defined themselves as until the civil war. Plus, with the passage of the seventeenth amendment in 1913 senators were directly elected by citizens, not appointed by the state legislature. Therefore, the current senate does not serve a purpose anymore, it just lets smaller states have more of a say in the government. It is undemocratic to let this system continue. California with a population of 39 million is represented by the same amount of people as Wyoming, population 600 thousan...

The first and most logical way to improve the structure of our government is the electoral college. How can it be that in two of the past five elections the so called winner has also lost the popular vote. This makes this a common occurrence, and with the demographic changes of the concentration of Democrats in cities and Republicans in rural areas make something like this very likely to happen again. The current system favors rural voters and therefore the Republican party as well by boosting the quality of votes from states with smaller populations. A vote in Wyoming is worth almost four time as much as a vote in California. This discriminates against urban voters and lets a minority set the national agenda. By this principle it can be argued that the United States of America is a minority rule country. However, setting a one vote per person method of electing our president would do quite the opposite and oppress the rural voter. We're too big of a country to have a system that w...

This is a blog that outlines how I think we can improve our American Democracy. A couple things I will be focusing on are reforming all three branches of government to Democratize them. My plans will completely change what people comprise both the senate and the house. I will also be focusing heavily on reforming the electoral college and bits of the courts. The last major thing I will talk about is gerrymandering and I will be creating new congressional maps for each state with more than one seats in the house (sorry Delaware, Montana, Alaska, etc.) and I will be suggesting many new laws on top of the constitutional changes already mentioned here. Thanks, and be sure to comment any questions/concerns.