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the following is an excerpt from a high school senior's term paper in World History from 2500.
The American Republic had several castes, the members of which were allowed various levels of citizenship. First, the value of a citizen's vote depending on which 'state' that citizen lived. For example, in the United States Senate, the highest congress of the land, citizens of the Wyoming state enjoyed nearly 100 times the representative power as did citizens of the California state (Wyoming had a senator for every 200,000 citizens while California had one senator for every 18 million citizens). Furthermore, the city-state of 'Distric of Colombia,' even though they hosted the federal government and was peopled by 700,000 people, did not enjoy Senatorial representation.
This disparity continued into the Republic's presidential election system. The system known as the 'electoral college' gave preference to states like Wyoming, who were awarded one elector for every 130,000 citizens while California only had one elector for every 650,000 citizens.
Even in the most democratic of the houses of Congress, this discrimination continued. In the House of Representatives, Wyoming had a representative for 450,000 citizens while California only had one representative for 640,000 of its people."
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