"Ask someone on the Left why every state gets two and only two senators? Should California and New York get more, since they have more people? Since blacks only make up 13% of the total population, shouldn’t they get only 13% Congressional representation and economic benefits?
You do not understand what makes our republic... We have a Union of several states, sovereign states. This union is of a Constitutional Republic form, not a representative form.
This means that by contract, the Constitution, gives each state a (2) senator representation equal amongst the several state. It is this state interest, not the people within the states, that makes up our union... a union that is a constitutional republic, not a representative republic.
It is why we have a Senate. A chamber that argues for the specific interests of the state and the union it is a member of. It is the Senate which makes us a Republic, not the House of Representatives.
The House, a chamber of representatives of the people at large sent by each states districts to secure the interest of the people of the several states to guard against any interests voted for by the Senate(the republic or union), that would be repugnant against the sovereign interests of the people of the states and their Constitutional protections.
This is all covered in the Federalist Papers and the notes from the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Of course each chamber is recognized for whom there interests lay... for example:
States:
The Senate has judicial oversight and approval because the Justices for any federal appointments are made for the interest of the Republic(the states), or Senate, not the House. This is deliberate because the Constitution is a contract between the several states, not the people. The POTUS state of the union address is given in the Senate chamber because the President, as well as the entire Federal government, is an agent of the states, not the people. The President answers to the Senate/the-states not the people/the-house.
The Federal Government exists mainly for the protection of and to guarantee for every state a republican form of government... not the governing of individuals.
Each state has their own president (the governor) as well as a unique state constitution, legislature and judicial branch. Why?? Because each state is a separate sovereign nation state, a country of it's own self government, where most of these nation states border each other. No different than Poland, France, Germany, Italy... etc. Get the picture? The EU, The USA. Though each union is formed by different unique contracts, none-the-less, are still Unions.
The House:
Taxation originates in the house where it's impact is most felt by those who must pay the bills.
Articles of Impeachment, Power of Impeachment (a formal indictment by the house), is a check against executive branch abuse to use by the House if the people of the several states have decided that the Unions chief representative/executive and Commander, the POTUS, is acting against the iterests of the people, the union, the office or the Constitution... aka: treason, high crimes & misdemeanors and/or dereliction of duties. The Senate is then responsible to try & convict being the court that prosecutes it's unions CEO.
Of course the 17th Amendment destroyed our Republic by having Senators directly elected by popular vote. The Senate and House reps are now one big House of Representatives that both answer directly to the entire state electorate and the interest of the people and is the main reason our Federal government is no longer functioning as intended. There is no longer a check and balance between the House and Senate, the interest of the Constitutional Republic vs the interest of the caucus-mob and raiders of the treasury ... the people. Our once limited Federal government has been corrupted to serve only the interests of the people/mob. The interests of the Republican union and the Republic that our Constitution created are now gone, desolved by the 17th Amendment.
Repeal the 17th. The