Comment by xienze

> The size difference between the smallest and largest districts—RI district 2 and Montana’s at large district—is 1:2 in population.

Come again? MT and RI have the same approximate population (1.1M) and the same number of representatives (2). I’m talking about the state level here.

> all Congressional powers either require both houses in concert

Right, they act as checks and balances upon one another. Equal-sized representation to give smaller states a way to avoid being steamrolled by the will of the largest states — why would states want to stay in a union where they have no hope of representation? Methinks if Alabama and Mississippi kept everything about themselves politically the same yet were both the size of California and New York you’d probably be of a different mind about the importance of the senate.