Credit: Victoria Pickering via Flickr.com The state of Wyoming, with fewer than 600,000 residents, sends two Senators to the U.S. Senate. The state of California, with nearly seven times as many (nearly 40 million) residents, also sends two Senators to the U.S. Senate. As Max Boot notes in a recent Washington Post column, “Twenty-one states with fewer total people than California have 42 Senate seats.” Granted, Wyoming has only one U.S. Representative, while California has 53 U.S. Representatives. But the Senate has unique powers, including the approval of appointees to the Supreme Court. Nume…