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- From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
- Subject: Re: Japanese Major Suggests Military Coup: Your Opinion? (mod. long)
- Message-ID: <HARKCOM.92Nov16093729@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 00:37:29 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: miklg@acuson.com's message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:57:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.145730.21383@acuson.com> miklg@acuson.com
- (Michael Goldman ) writes:
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- =}miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.) writes:
- =}
- =}>The U.S. has historically had its rural regions over-represented on a
- =}>per-capita basis, but I don't think the skew has not been as dramatic
- =}>as in Japan, overall.
- =}
- =} Are you thinking of the very powerful US Senate where the
- =} 2 senators from North Dakota (population 638K) have the
- =} same votes as the 2 senators from California (pop. 34M) ?
- =} (Ratio of 53 to 1 ).
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- Have people forgotten the purpose of having both a senate and a
- house of representatives? One was set to give equal voice to all
- citizens and one was set up to give equal voice to each state
- regardless of population... "Checks and Balances" ring any bells?
-