When this nation was successful in asserting its independence from Great Britain through revolutionary war, it soon recognized that in order for this nation to remain long a nation, it needed to create a form of governance which would be of lasting benefit to the people of those Colonies of what became the United States of America. Subsequently, a Constitution was written and created, of which, in order for this to occur and thus be passed by each State so as to become ratified, there had to be compromises made at that convention, so that this nation would have a governing document, which though, not perfect, would serve to be quite functional in its application, so of.
At the time of that Constitution, it was important for those small States, to believe that they would have some semblance of a meaningful vote within the Congressional body, which did so occur, by virtue of setting up a bicameral legislature, in which one congressional body with its representatives would be determined by the population of a given State; whereas, the other body would be specifically structured with two Senators per State, no more and no less, no matter the population of that State.
At the time of the inception of our Constitution, Virginia had the largest population of free peoples, and Delaware had the smallest, of which, the ratio between Viriginia to Delaware of those free peoples was a bit over 9:1. While that difference was quite large, it holds not a candle to the current highest ratio, of which, California has a 67:1 ratio of more people than our smallest State, which is Wyoming. In fact, California, has so many people, that the twenty-two smallest States basically equate to the population of California, which means that when it comes to the Senate, those that are the peoples of California, are represented by just two Senators, or 2% of the Senate body; in comparison, to those twenty-two States being represented by forty-four Senators, or 44% of the Senate body. This is clearly, undemocratic, and there doesn’t seem to be any real valid point, why this should continue to be so, except for the fact that this is how our Constitution is so written, at the present time.
It doesn’t make any good sense that on a national basis, the smallest States are permitted to have an outsized influence upon national legislative interests when they are clearly the runts of the litter. It is because of this skewing of permitting those States with so few people, to have such an immense influence upon national legislature of all types, that this nation, doesn’t seem to know how to direct its efforts in the best way to be of beneficence to the greatest amount of people. As it stands, the current Senate structure is in need of a serious reboot, of which, there should be some sort of middle ground, that would allow those bigger States to have a bigger voice, and for those smaller States, to still have a voice, but smaller than what we so presently see. One way to accomplish this, is for the bigger States to divide themselves into smaller States, so as to get additional representation. Another way, would be for a Constitutional Amendment which would see the Senate reconstructed by taking into its numerical accounts the distribution of the population of each State, of which, perhaps a reasonable compromise would be that the largest States would be permitted to have up to four Senators, and the smallest States, no fewer than one.
In summary, what we so have today, is undemocratic, for it provides a greater voice to the few, at the expense of the many.