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I’m not sure if you can say for certain the exact intentions of individuals who prepared the constitution hundreds of years ago.

• lesuorac 5y ago
  Why not? The founders were literate and routinely wrote down their thoughts (see citations at the bottom of wikipedia). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Senate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_S... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_C... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise
  • honkdaddy 5y ago
    You'll have to do better than linking the entire history of the US Senate if you want to prove that the only reason the US has two senators per state is slavery. I don't doubt that it factored into it at the time, but to tell people in Alabama that the sole reason their vote is valued how the way it is is due to slavery seems incredibly revisionist and ignorant to me. Consider that in Canada's House of Parliament, we similarly have votes in rural areas overrepresented compared to their urban counterparts. Did that system arise from slavery as well? Of course it didn't, and any Canadian suggesting so would be laughed at.
    • joombaga 5y ago
      > Did that system arise from slavery as well? Of course it didn't, and any Canadian suggesting so would be laughed at. Can you explain why? I probably have a childlike understanding of the histories of Parliament and slavery in Canada.