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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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The One Person, One Vote

The project of limiting the franchise and the fights over it, might have been one of the animating forces of american history. One person, one vote itself was an incredibly controversial in fraut finding,. When you carry it forward, meets with a lot of resistance in modern conser jurisprudence. And also, and i said this once, and people lost their mind, i had this monologue about the electoral college where i said, if the electoral college weren't explicitly in the constitution, it would be an unconstitutional scheme. The idea that somewhole, if we had the electoral college, people in small states would be overlooked is not necessarily true. You'll get more primary attention

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