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Every two years we go through an agonizing ritual in this country known as a national election. And even though this spectacle is an essential exercise in a democracy, most Americans are glad when it’s over.

In every other national election (like the one in 2016) we elect a president. In all national elections we elect every member of the U.S. House of Representatives and one-third of the members of the U.S. Senate.

When the country’s “founding fathers” were drafting the U.S. Constitution in 1787, they came up with the idea that House members would represent and be elected by the people wherea...