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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The Senate makes sense under two circumstances:

  1. The US is a confederation, with the majority of the sovereignty resting with individual states rather than the Federal government, and
  2. 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

How does that make the Senate important?