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30 November 2021   22:25 Diperbarui: 30 November 2021   22:45 49
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Article I---Providing for a truly representative republican democracy. After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred.

After which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred representatives, nor less than one representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of representatives, shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than two hundred representatives, nor more than one representative for every fifty thousand persons.

Of the ten amendments first added to the Constitution, this is the one that seems the most archaic, when I wrote about it. This amendment was a direct result of the British government quartering soldiers within the homes of colonists before and during the Revolutionary War. 

This seems to be a far cry from today, but it is not. There have been several lawsuits in California about police stakeouts using private homes. When these stakeouts extend over many hours or days, there is real hardship to the citizen residents. 

These things are returning today. Police forces across the nation are utilizing military equipment and tactics against the citizenry. The Federal government continues to use the military or paramilitary tactics AND personnel within the borders of the US in direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.

The authors of the Constitution laid the foundation of the Senate without really knowing what it would look like once it was standing. They knew it would rival and restrain the House of Representatives. After all, the Senate has a higher age requirement. Members serve six-year terms. 

And they represent not just a district, but an entire state. It's this kind of history that has shaped the Senate into what it is today: a body that examines, considers, and protects. Senator Byrd, the longest-serving Senator in U.S. history, once said: "the Senate is a source of wisdom and judgement?---?both on the actions of the lower house and on the executive."

All change is painful. Drastic change is even more painful. But the most painful is annihilation. That is what must be remembered when we want to complain about what I am about to propose. Annihilation, not literally but in every other way as productive, influential and important citizens of the country. 

We are facing a future where when the words of the Constitution are spoken, "We the people of India", 200 million citizens will not be included in the term, 'We the people.' Once again, if that comes to pass, it will be with our active or tacit agreement. Nobody to blame but ourselves.

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