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A more important conflict within my fictional world. Based on a few real world conflicts.
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Is this part of your democracy timeline?
A more important conflict within my fictional world. Based on a few real world conflicts.
NopeIs this part of your democracy timeline?
Did California split into two states or did it simply split its electoral votes?On May 5, 1865 the United States entered into crisis as all senior officials of the Executive Branch were assassinated. In a grand conspiracy, several former Confederate officials and Southern sympathizers sought to decapitate the Federal Government and continue the war. President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant were both shot after meeting with each other in Washington, both dying of their wounds minuets after the shooting. Secretary of State William S. Seward was attacked in his house, where he was stabbed in the neck, bleeding out before help could arrive. Finally, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin was shot near his home, succumbing to his wounds a few hours after being attacked. By 6:00 PM, the US was in total crisis.
With their deaths, Layfette S. Foster became acting president, and a special election was soon organized. During the 1865 Republican National Convention, radical Benjamin Butler quickly emerged as the front runner, where he won his parties nomination. In contrast, Democrats organized under the "Union" coalition nominated Horatio Seymour. In the end Butler won a comfortable victory, but it was not the landslide the Republicans expected. The fate of the American Republic rested in Butler's hands in March 1866, as fears of a further Southern Rebellion permeated throughout Washington.
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Why?If DC were made a state, there would only be 537 electoral votes.
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no lore (the 5 extra states are Puerto Rico, Redwood (not-jefferson), Micronesia, East Prussia, and Cuba)
I already asked that question. Something about the US House being capped at 435 Representatives so there'd be one less representative after DC got one. Somehow that equals a 537 member electoral college.Why?
Somehow that equals a 537 member electoral college.
But an electoral college with 537 electoral votes means that the EC would be lowered by one, not expanded. If it was expanded that'd be more than 538 (what it is now).Because Senate is not capped but each state has two senators so while the number of representatives would not change and there would be one less electoral vote because the "phantom" DC representative for the electoral vote is gone DC would still get two senators and all existing states would keep theirs, expanding the size of the senate and therefore the electoral college.
But an electoral college with 537 electoral votes means that the EC would be lowered by one, not expanded. If it was expanded that'd be more than 538 (what it is now).
Huh, interesting. I never thought of it that way before. That actually makes a lot of sense.See my edit which I did after you quoted my post.
But to say it another way:
House is capped at 435 actual voting state representatives + 100 senators from two per 50 states + 3 for DC simulating one representative and two senators = 538
If DC were a state that would be 435 state representatives (because cap) + 102 senators from two per 51 states (now including DC), hence = 537
Micronesia includes the 3 compact of free association nations, along with the US non-hawaii pacific territories (except for american samoa, which was never part of the usa ittl), which is around 366k, so i dont think so?Why?
Isn't Micronesia too sparsely populated to be a state?
Also, I'm reminded of a television sketch comedy.
I already asked that question. Something about the US House being capped at 435 Representatives so there'd be one less representative after DC got one. Somehow that equals a 537 member electoral college.
Because Senate is not capped but each state has two senators so while the number of representatives would not change and there would be one less electoral vote because the "phantom" DC representative for the electoral vote is gone DC would still get two senators and all existing states would keep theirs, expanding the size of the senate and keeping the two electoral votes DC has that regular states have for senators.
But an electoral college with 537 electoral votes means that the EC would be lowered by one, not expanded. If it was expanded that'd be more than 538 (what it is now).
If we are allowing for DC statehood, then the 435 cap, which exists only in statute and not in the constitution, would likely be augmented or abandoned. Indeed, it might be required to get DC admitted. After all, there was a proposal in the Bush 43 administration that would not have allowed DC statehood, but would have updated DC's delegate to a full representative in return for a new house seat until the next census in Utah. If admitting DC will cost a state a house seat, which follows, then it also follows that legislation could stipulate that the cap on the House change. The challenge there becomes the pitfalls of a U.S. House with an even number of seats, which might only be fixable by the U.S. House fully adopting Westminster's tradition of the Speaker not voting on bills.See my edit which I did after you quoted my post.
But to say it another way:
House is capped at 435 actual voting state representatives + 100 senators from two per 50 states + 3 for DC simulating one representative and two senators = 538
If DC were a state that would be 435 state representatives (because cap) + 102 senators from two per 51 states (now including DC), hence = 537
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 3, 1978) was an American pharmacist. politician and minister who served as the Methodist Bishop of Minnesota for decades. He was Mayor of Minneapolis in the 1940s and was crucial in founding the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party. In 1948 he gave a well received speech at the Democratic National Convention and seemed poised for a strong Senate run, only to suddenly depart in favor of joining the Methodist Clergy.Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – July 15, 1948) was an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 35th Mayor of Minneapolis from 1945 to 1948.
Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. In 1945, he was elected mayor of Minneapolis. He helped found the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL)and the liberal anti-communist group Americans for Democratic Action.
In 1948 Humphrey, a front-runner for a Senate nomination successfully advocated for the inclusion of a proposal to end racial segregation in the 1948 Democratic National Convention's party platform. Humphrey’s final public appearance was a powerful speech in favor of civil rights on July 14.
On July 15, Humphrey was declared missing, having failed to appear at any further Convention festivities. He was last seen going for a walk. He was eventually presumed dead, his disappearance provoking much speculation. Some suspect some nefarious Segregationist plot, although suicide or a chance murder on the streets of Philadelphia seem the most likely.
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Finally a timeline where Beregovoy amounts to somethingAnd the last one is atompunk.