I strongly agree with everything in this article. The practical problem we have in the U.S. is that the system was designed to give power to geographical areas, not 'the people'. (Republicans have made an art form of gerrymandering to make political power in the House as geographically determined as the Senate is.) As a result, lightly populated geographical areas have as much say as densely populated areas do. Most people live in more densely populated areas, but less populated areas dominate geographically. In our politics there is a cultural divide that follows that geography.