Commentary: Stop telling us how to think and how to vote

A U.S. Senate seat in Alaska is worth the same as one from any other state when Democrats and Republicans try counting to 51, the number needed to control the chamber. All 100 senators get an equal vote, regardless of whether they represent states of far less than 1 million residents, such as Alaska and Wyoming, or more than 30 million, such as California and Texas.

The men who drafted the U.S. Constitution almost 239 years ago — yes, it was all men, 133 years before women finally won the right to vote — had to find a compromise between the larger and smaller states. They settled on the plan t...