[WillRain]

Respectfully -
what are they protecting the states from? Someone else getting a bigger helping of pork than they do?

Because frankly I can't see anything else that's a threat. I mean sure, there may be some isolated dispute about water rights or something, but you don't have to be FROM Illinois to know that it's your defacto job to take the state's side on routine stuff like that.

Educate me. What will Obama or keyes be protecting Illinois from? Those nasty Cheeseheads becoming a threat again? ;)

[LS]

The original concern was that the rights of the states (which are not always the same as the rights of the people) would be infringed. For example, it would be in the PEOPLE of Illinois' interests to abandon the electoral college, but it would not be in the interests of the STATE of Illinois.

During impeachment---if it had worked the way it was supposed to---the senators would have been voting for the interests of the states as a whole, i.e., the U.S. and not their own little elected playpen. But they didn't. There is a reason the Founders made this a federal system and separated the Senate from the House.