General Discussion

By the Congress and Senate voting on them. And how are laws upheld by the Supreme Court upholding them and who has the final say on that? The U.S. Senate. California's population doesn't do any good nationally if what their voters want is drowned out by smaller less diverse States like Wyoming. They say all politics are local that's somewhat true, but it turns out all politics are national too. The congressional representative or Senator In a State you don't live in and can't vote for might be the deciding vote on rather you get to keep your healthcare and many other things and Senators from a State you don't live in even have more power in addition to possibly being the deciding vote on rather you get to keep your healthcare they also get to vote to confirm Supreme Court Justices that might overturn laws. Within the framework of the electoral college the electorate must be expanded nationally to a more diverse electorate to give the voters of California a better chance to get their agenda passed.


As far as adding Cities as States that's not really constitutionally permissible without States allowing those localities to secede from the State and no State is going to ever allow that again. Hasn't happened properly sense about the late 1700s and West Virginia during the civil war and so they did not need the permission of the confederate State of Virginia to secede. However adding inhabited U.S. territories as States is constitutionally permissible although their citizens would have to vote on it and the Congress would have to vote on it and would have to be signed by the President.