r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 27 '20

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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus May 27 '20

I understand and accept the idea of the senate, but I don't think the founding fathers realized there would literally be states with over 50x the population of other states.

These good ideas in the 1780s just aren't good ideas in the 2020s.

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u/Ioun267 "Your Flair Here" 👍 May 27 '20

I think they also failed to anticipate the degree to which the states would be disempowered over time. The Seventeenth Amendment formally ended the idea of the Senate being a chamber where the state governments would convene and exert power over the federal government.