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To: cymbeline
Our senate/house arrangement is perfect. One represents states and the other population.

No, the Senate no longer represents states. Since the 17th amendment, 'states' are not represented. The Senate just became a 'super' house of representatives, which in effect is representative of the big urban centers.

14 posted on 10/31/2018 7:36:02 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44

“No, the Senate no longer represents states”

Seems like it does because each state has 2 senators.

If the big states influence the little states’ senators, that’s a 2nd order effect and in any event the senators represent the voters with each state. The system is in place. If voters screw it up, so be it.


15 posted on 10/31/2018 7:44:10 AM PDT by cymbeline
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