The thing you have to understand about laws -- and this is certainly the case with the Constitution -- is that they aren't written for automatons, they are written for humans.
The prohibition of changes to representation to the Senate doesn't work as an inescapable barrier and isn't intended, it works as a red-flag warning.
The enforcement mechanism it relies on isn't law-as-mystic-amulet, is the same one that enforced the view American colonists had of their proper freedoms when it clashed with the policies of the British Crown.
The thing you have to understand about laws -- and this is certainly the case with the Constitution -- is that they aren't written for automatons, they are written for humans.
The prohibition of changes to representation to the Senate doesn't work as an inescapable barrier and isn't intended, it works as a red-flag warning.
The enforcement mechanism it relies on isn't law-as-mystic-amulet, is the same one that enforced the view American colonists had of their proper freedoms when it clashed with the policies of the British Crown.