[optik_b]

"What could the authors of the Constitution have been thinking? Too bad they didn't have you there to guide them."

You mean the Great Compromise?

Well they were thinking how can we come up with a compromise to get all these 13 states to unite. They gave the small states like Rhode Island as many votes in the Senate as a much larger more populous states, but also created the House of Representatives to balance that out. They compromised with Slavery also, by creating the three-fifth's compromise, which mean that slaves counted as three-fifth's when calculating a states's population to determine the number of seats in the House.

The Senate is a big reason why today you have states that get a lot more out of the Federal government than they pay in. Year in year out while other states like California foot the bill for the billions in spending redirected to these States.

[Bonaparte]

The funding advantage to the smaller states is actually fairly small and I believe it's a reasonable price to pay to keep them in the game. A similar reason (plus others) applies to the slight advantage they are given in the electoral college.