Worthwhile New England Initiative: Maine Considers Going Unicameral

Chris Dodd thinks that we need supermajority voting in the United States Senate:

US Capitol Building I think Ryan Avent is thinking too hard here:

Parliament Building, Beirut, Lebanon (wikimedia)

Continuing on yesterday’s theme, if you add together the two Republican Senators from Wyoming with the one from Alaska, one from South Dakota, one from New Hampshire, two from Maine, two from Idaho, two from Nebraska, one from Nevada, two from Utah, two from Kansas, two from Mississippi, one from Iowa, two from Oklahoma, two from Kentucky, one from Louisiana, two from South Carolina, and two from Alabama, the 28 of them collectively represent (on a system in which you attribute half th

I think talking about “constitutional law” is 97 percent pointless, but as an intellectual exercise here’s a question from Radley Balko and an answer below the fold: Putting aside what’s codified Bill of Rights, which was ratified after the main body of the Constitution, do you believe the Constitution puts any restrictions on the powers of the federal government?

Virginia's Republican-controlled legislature is moving to drastically change the way in which the state's Electoral College votes are allocated.

David Leonhardt, in part replying to my earlier post on Texas, asks, "why haven’t Democrats had more success in creating model economic policies on the state level?" I was a bit confused by the question, as I don't know of any states conducting large-scale economic policy experiments that regularly enter the debate as a potential model for the rest of the nation.