Interestingly their system of allocating votes per planet instead of votes per population probably led to this impasse just like in the USA. The slaver planets would be able to veto any motions to abolish slavery with their disproportionate representation. People on Coruscant are totally fucked and get like one millionth the vote as a slaver on Tatooine.
The republic also treated droids as second class citizens and slaves despite their apparent sentience
Even as bad as that is, you're making it out to be better than it actually is.
Not every planet gets a Senator. There are a lot of member planets that don't have them. Also, for planets with multiple distinct populations that have a Senator, all the minority populations get is a non-voting Representative (e.g. in episodes 2 and 3, Jar Jar is the non-voting Representative representing the Gungans, while Padme represents the humans of Naboo and also the planet as a whole, as the sole one who actually has power)
Interestingly their system of allocating votes per planet instead of votes per population probably led to this impasse just like in the USA. The slaver planets would be able to veto any motions to abolish slavery with their disproportionate representation. People on Coruscant are totally fucked and get like one millionth the vote as a slaver on Tatooine.
The republic also treated droids as second class citizens and slaves despite their apparent sentience
Even as bad as that is, you're making it out to be better than it actually is.
Not every planet gets a Senator. There are a lot of member planets that don't have them. Also, for planets with multiple distinct populations that have a Senator, all the minority populations get is a non-voting Representative (e.g. in episodes 2 and 3, Jar Jar is the non-voting Representative representing the Gungans, while Padme represents the humans of Naboo and also the planet as a whole, as the sole one who actually has power)
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Ah, well nevertheless
"Slave Power" conspiracy in the Galactic Senate. Stop making me want to write weird political Star Wars fanfiction