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> The Senate wasn’t designed to represent “the people” anyway, it was designed to represent the interests of the sovereign states And over time it has evolved
by jldugger 9y ago
> The Senate wasn’t designed to represent “the people” anyway, it was designed to represent the interests of the sovereign states
And over time it has evolved to directly represent the people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_U...
We have 27 reasons to think the constitution as designed was imperfect, and at least one reason to think the representation of DC was flawed. I'm sure we can add more.