Political Representation and Proportionality

The Phronetocratic unit is a Polity of maximum Complexity, i. e. a leadership of a maximum number of followers. When a Polity becomes too numerically diverse for effective unification, Representation must be implemented. While what that maximum might be is circumstantial, a necessary condition of a sustainable Representative Phronetocracy is proportionality. A Representative Democracy must preserve the Principle of One Citizen-One Vote, which it can only accomplish by uniform proportionality of Representation, i. e. via sub-Polities of equal population, and of equal power within a Polity, which is nothing more than their unifier. Now, measuring the proportionality of U. S. Representativity is difficult, because it is so labyrinthine--a typical citizen is part of a municipality, a district, a county, a state, and the nation, entities that are often incommensurate with each other. But one glaring disproportionality in the system, one that is occasionally a target of criticism, is the equality of the number of U. S. Senators in a state, regardless of how populous the state might be. Hence, a citizen of a less populous state has a greater voice in the U. S. Senate than does a resident of one that is more densely populated. And, since how many Electoral College votes a state has is a function of how many U. S. Senators it has, a Presidential vote of the former likewise carries greater weight than that of the latter. Hence, the U. S. would Evolve by eliminating the Electoral College, and by at least considering that the Principle of 'States' Rights' may no longer be as effective a protector of Individual Rights as it was originally intended.