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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
by 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.