No. of Recommendations: 2
I understand the purpose of the founders in setting up a legislative body that would not be so swayed by popular sentiment- part of that whole “republic” thing, but still…..
The founders thought it was a good start, and the result of compromises and Madison promised the first Congress would address certain issues to gat it passes, which became the Bill of Rights. Incidently:
"The term gerrymandering is a portmanteau of a salamander and Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States at the time of his death, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander." Gerry was pronounced with a hard G.
