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Does this plan make sense? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by 3volver@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The Senate makes sense under two circumstances:

The US is a confederation, with the majority of the sovereignty resting with individual states rather than the Federal government, and
Senators are appointed by state legislatures and not directly elected, giving them a meaningfully different constituency and perspective than House reps.

Those circumstances existed when the Senate was initially conceived of by the founding fathers, but no longer do.

[–] Chriswild@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

How does that make the Senate important?