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RE: Hive Poll: Who do you think will win the US elections? Trump or Harris?
Tyranny of the masses is not democracy. The US electoral system was designed to balance raw numbers with geography and the rights of States.
Control of land is an important element of power and a system that doesn't recognise this is liable to be upended by the people controlling the majority of the land and starving out the city dwellers.
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Interesting point, but still don't really see an objective reason why smaller states should be overrepresented in the presidential elections? Isn't democracy always sort of a majority over minority as long as some principles (free speech, principle of equality, personal freedoms or human rights for instance) are upheld? So democracy is not just tyranny over the minority, but there are some principles that protect the non-ruling side.
The United States (like Australia) is not a unitary State with a single sovereignty deriving from a prior or current monarchy like most European States.
Each US State is a sovereign entity which existed prior to joining the United States and whose rights are protected in the US Constitution and electoral system. States can enter or leave this Union.
Thus there is no promise in the US Constitution that every US citizen's vote will be worth the same. Indeed in the US Senate each state gets two Senators regardless of size.
The issue derives from the nature of sovereignty.