Even if you’re on board with the representational inequities baked into the Electoral College, you’d better be aware that they’ve gotten a lot more intense since the framers’ time. In the 1790 census, the largest state, Virginia, had eleven times the population of the smallest, Rhode Island. Right now, the ratio between Wyoming’s population and California’s is about 68. Would the constitutional convention have been game to assign Rhode Island so much power to appoint senators and electors if it had been six times smaller than it was?
