46 D/I senators represent 330,048,222 Americans; 54 R senators represent 286,264,454. Is that democracy?
Feb 25, 2016 · 7:17 AM UTC
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@davidbaron Your numbers suggest a population of just over 600 million?
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@tabatkins Each American in the 50 states is represented twice in the US senate. (I used 2010 census populations.)
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@davidbaron and that's why it's more precisely a democratic-republic. And you'll note that no "newly free" country has adopted that.