• @[email protected]
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    -12 months ago

    The point of the Senate was to get states to ratify the constitution. That’s it. Smaller states didn’t want to agree to join a union where they gave up power to a federal government dominated by the larger states.

    The Senate should really be abolished, and the # of representatives should be doubled to temper the impacts of gerrymandering. If smaller states want more power against larger states, they can work together with other smaller states to form a voting bloc in the house.

    • @aidan
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      12 months ago

      If the senate is abolished, states that joined on the basis of the senate should secede

        • @[email protected]
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          2 months ago

          Language. Do better.

          Please elaborate on how their take can be construed to: make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.