I want to know the answer to the following question:
What is one method to protect the rights of the component states?
All the background I'm provided with is that "A federal upper house may be based on a special scheme of apportionment, as is the case in the senates of the United States and Australia, where each state is represented by an equal number of senators irrespective of the size of its population.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no