Fixing the Electoral College and the Senate by dividing DC up into lots of states

[lpetrich]

A Harvard journal’s wild plan to save democracy by adding 127 states - Vox
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Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation - Harvard Law Review

To create a system where every vote counts equally, the Constitution must be amended. To do this, Congress should pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only a few core federal buildings and then admit the rest of the District’s 127 neighborhoods as states. These states — which could be added with a simple congressional majority — would add enough votes in Congress to ratify four amendments: (1) a transfer of the Senate’s power to a body that represents citizens equally; (2) an expansion of the House so that all citizens are represented in equal-sized districts; (3) a replacement of the Electoral College with a popular vote; and (4) a modification of the Constitution’s amendment process that would ensure future amendments are ratified by states representing most Americans.

To ensure that a divided DC can outvote the states, one may need 150 of these DC states.

DC's area is 68.34 mi^2 (177.0 km^2) meaning that each each of these states will have an average area of less than a square kilometer.

 

[Derec]

Is this what passes as "scholarship" at "Hahwahd" these days? I guess that's what happens when so-called "affirmative action" (aka discriminating by race) becomes the single most important admissions criterion. By the way, 1100, which is the SAT admissions cutoff for black, Indian (feather) and hispanic students, is only 58th percentile. A lot of academically mediocre preferred minorities are at Hahwahd.

P.S.: It seems nobody wanted to put their name on this abomination of an idea.

 

[Jayjay]

Obviously it's not a serious proposal. But it does show that there is a loophole in the constitution for introducing new amendments with simply congressional majority, bypassing the states altogether.