VOTERS AND THEIR DEGREES OF POLITICAL SOPHISTICATION

A republic, by definition, is the bringing together of equal-population districts to form one common government of the reps from those districts.  The Founders were well aware of the districting differences among the thirteen States.  In order to form a more perfect union, their Constitution specified that the States provide their federal government with a grid of such standard-size districts.  And that is exactly what the States did as quickly as possible.

Should the Founders have also instructed the States: “Now, before we do this, let’s equalize our own State Governments’ districting systems to conform with the Constitution’s districting idea.  Our new districts could run the entire federal system we are setting up.  After all, we are simply reorganizing the same people to run a more complex system. We should not need many additional personnel. In fact, our people’s State Governments would be able to operate their federal system simply by electing their State Reps.

“We have structured the Federal Government into a three-level voting system based on the degree of political sophistication possessed by each level.  The grassroots voter will choose the two-year term officials. The two-year term officials will collegiately choose the four-year term officials. And, when these two-year term officials are assembled as a legislative body, they will be qualified to choose the six-year term officials. 

“We, the writers of the Constitution, hope and expect that our State Governments will seriously consider re-doing their governing structures as mirror images of the Constitutional system we have devised.”

Will our State Governments ever decide to organize us as one federated system of local community districts?  Only then will we finally learn how well we are able to govern ourselves.  It is their constitutional duty to reorganize us grassroots voters.  The States themselves are the most victimized by their inaction.  Imagine the irony of having a U.S. Senator smiling down on a pleading state Governor, when the original plan was for exactly the opposite!