What is the point of state legislatures being bicameral? In congress the house gives representation to each tiny corner of the country individually, while the senate gives representation to states. That's why house elections happen in designated congressional districts while senate elections happen for entire states.For state legislatures, this concept falls apart. Except nebraska, all states have two legislative chambers. Each chamber makes it's own legislative districts for state elections. That means each person lives in two different state legislative districts, and elects two different people for each district rather than a broad election for one chamber like in the US senate. What is the point of not having only one chamber?
>>18391942To slow down the process and require buy in from more stakeholders to increase compromise and reduce the amount of rash laws that favor special interests.
>>18391942>>18391966prior to 1964 most state legislatures were set up like the house and senate where the upper house was based on things like county lines or some other form of distribution to make sure everyone was represented equally like how the US Senate insures all Americans have equal representation in the government. and then the Warren Court. a court so bad when asked later in life what his greatest regret was Eisenhower said he was sitting on the court. as part of a 3 case cycle warren and his American hating cronies incorrectly used the 14th amendment to do baker v carr, westberry v sanders and renyolds v sims. Renyolds v sims 1964 says that every state legislator in a house needs to represent about the same number of peopleIE setting it up based on the senate, was unconstitutional. and since then no human has had any representation in states like illinois or NY. states only retained the upper houses because politicians aren't going to eliminate their own jobs and in theory to retard the law making process, which is based.basically whenever you see a retarded law or practice that makes no sense it's 100% either from the 1870s and reconstruction or the 1960s and the civil rights era.Like we can't have multi member congressional districts with proportional representation because due to a 1960s civil rights era federal law. even though representation would be better and gerrymandering would be solved if states were all just like at large districts and you proportioned out representatives based on the popular vote.
