Professor Neuborne argues that the modern filibuster functions as a de facto supermajority voting rule that violates the one Senator-one vote language of the 17th Amendment, and the unamendable equal state suffrage guaranty of Article V. Just as a weighted voted system in the Senate would violate the equal suffrage guaranty, He argues that the inevitable mathematical variation in the value of each vote under a supermajority rule condemns the modern filibuster as a violation of the equal state suffrage rule.
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