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That's the whole purpose of the Senate; to give equal representation to each state. This was particularly true before they changed the method of election for senators.
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I was just going to bring this point up. "Majority rule" by popular vote is inherently bad, because then you have the tyranny of the majority instead of freedom. Recent elections are excellent examples of this. What the maps clearly illustrate is the tendancy of the highly-concentrated populations to vote opposite less-dense areas. Daily living, priorities, and problems within these two catagories are starkly different naturally. Thus, laws passed by the concentrated populations really don't apply too well to anybody outside their cities, resulting in oppression and non-representation. By gradually changing our election methods to popular voting over the last 100 years or so, our government not only has more centralized control, but also is less obligated to serve the land and all segments of the population.
If that's what you want, fine. But don't claim that its "fair", "equitable", "in the best interests of the USA", or anything suggesting that it was what the country's designers had in mind.
A classic example of this is shown by California's nutty gun laws. Many highly-restrictive laws relating to firearms have been passed by the ultra-liberal California legislature (dominated by politicians representing the majority of the population in LA and the Bay Area). Laws limiting transportation methods of guns (locked in a case outside the passenger compartment separate from ammo), laws against types of guns (like Colt AR-15-type rifles), and even laws against single-shot long range target rifles (50 BMG rifles). All of these said examples are perfectly legal here in Nevada, and are quite prolific. While limiting these Constitutional freedoms may be OK with the majority of people in the city areas, in reality these people take up a very small amount of land in CA. That means that EVERYONE outside those cities is still subject to the same idiocies. We're talking people in the mountains, people in Northern Cal, people in the desert, and people travelling or visiting the CA countryside like me. There's a LOT of area and a LOT of people that have to put up with the stupidity, to their own disadvantage.
Rule by the majority is basically a signal to the rest of the populace: "We don't think your freedoms count, because we said so". That's not what America was all about. It's kinda like "no taxation without representation", even though England held the majority of the population. The original US government was designed to prevent it from happening again --- except very few leaders over the decades have tried to preserve that mindset in the law as the US has grown. Instead, it was a gradual shift from statemanship into "politicianhood".
I think I'll step down now....
