Let me guess where you came up with this 50/51 concept. The U. S. Senate votes 50/50 and the VP becomes the 51st vote to majority rules legislating people to die defending contextual realities come hell or high water.
Your mind always flows within one track mantras never adapting in space where genetics keep ancestors eternally separated in series parallel situations of total sum beating hearts living now, 24/7 artificial intellectual tomorrows typecasting ancestries by race, creed, color, gender biases, etc. people demanding their stereotypical behavior has rights to stay in character until extinction event arrives self fulfilled by ancestries ignoring life is limited to genetics existing eternally separated daily here.
90% of global population lives in Northern hemisphere and of the same human population 82% live in the "eastern Hemisphere legally defined by longitudes between international dateline established in the 19th century AD and Greenwich Prime meridian called AM side of the planet rotating every 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds.
Where does that extra 3 minutes and 56 seconds disappear and still keeps the calendar accurate 400 years in a row since the 17th century until the year 2000 didn't remove Feb 29, 2000 by choice to keep everyone in each alternate realities from questioning relative time theory since.
United States of America only has 340 million legal citizens in the global population of this species, 82% of global population lives in the defined east(AM midnight to noon geographical areas north and south of the equator all 8 seasons a each 52 week year.
Guess why in history every democracy failed globally? Same reason every dictatorship promising life can be better tomorrow than adapting to the moment dawn to dusk daily here.