{"id":499,"date":"2019-01-15T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=499"},"modified":"2019-03-30T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:46:12","slug":"restructuring-the-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/15\/restructuring-the-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Restructuring the US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-605\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Restructuring-the-Senate-Fig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"91\" \/>This subject admittedly has only a tenuous relationship to mathematics (via arithmetic), but perhaps it can join more mathematically challenging political topics like voting and gerrymandering. In any case, I was stimulated to consider the idea of reapportioning the US Senate by the % US population of each state by an 8 December 2018 article in the <em>Atlantic<\/em> by former Congressman John Dingell, who advocated abolishing the Senate. I thought this a bit too Draconian and considered the percent population idea as a better compromise. It turned out I was not alone in having this (obvious) thought: I just came across a more extensive 2 January 2019 <em>Atlantic<\/em> article by Eric Orts that concurs with my idea about reapportionment of the Senate, discusses the legal ramifications in more detail, and echoes the benefits I mentioned as well as others. See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Restructure-Senate-by-Pop-190115.pdf\">Restructuring the US Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This subject admittedly has only a tenuous relationship to mathematics (via arithmetic), but perhaps it can join more mathematically challenging political topics like voting and gerrymandering. In any case, I was stimulated to consider the idea of reapportioning the US Senate by the % US population of each state by an 8 December 2018 article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128,67,127],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-commentary","tag-electoral-college","tag-politics","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}