Our representative government now is perhaps more representative than it has ever been before in history. It is not necessarily representative per ca… - Frederik Pohl

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Our representative government now is perhaps more representative than it has ever been before in history. It is not necessarily representative per capita, but it most surely is ad valorem. If you like philosophical problems. Here is one for you: should each human being’s vote register alike, as the lawbooks pretend and as some say the founders of our nation desired? Or should a vote be weighted according to the wisdom, the power, and the influence—that is, the money—of the voter?

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About Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an award-winning science fiction writer and editor, with a career spanning over seventy-five years.

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Birth Name: Frederik George Pohl, Jr.
Alternative Names: Frederik Pohl II Edson McCann Jordan Park Elton V. Andrews Paul Fleur Lee Gregor Warren F. Howard Scott Mariner Ernst Mason James McCreigh Dirk Wilson Donald Stacy

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