As a partial compensation for this inevitable want of political power in the lower house of Congress, it was the true policy, as I have declared, for the Pacific Coast to divide its immense territorial area into small States, so as to secure in the United States Senate, an approach to equality of political power.
Jacobs argues for the division of the Pacific Coast into smaller states to enhance political representation in the Senate.
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