Those "are" the issues, they were not represented at the ballot box nor Congress because of the Population differences, but they were the ones footing the Bill for those who controlled them. Does not the preamble to the Declaration of Independence say, if you feel your Government is not representing you, you should overthrow it, leave it, create one that does? Not in thoes exact words but that is what it is saying. It doesn't say "yall go vote against it". The forefathers that created this country did not "Vote against the King of England" they over threw his rule, I guess they were un-American weren't they? I guess the Confederates were too.