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 -=> On 07-29-20  18:32,  Bj”rn Felten <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Why the US senate? <=-


 BF>> With all the amendments, it's not really intact, is it?
 BF>> But how well is it conforming to the original idea?
 
 DS> Pretty well, except that right now it is being stretched to the limit.

 BF> Yeah well, I tend to agree. But one question that I've 
 BF> been struggling with for decades (yes!) is: what in heavens 
 BF> name purpose does your senate serve?

 BF> A club of 100 millionaires that is supposed to oversee what the 435
 BF> commoners in the house are doing? Oh, yes we had that 
 BF> elitism even in Sweden, but we abandoned it in 1969. Is it 
 BF> maybe time for the US to join the 21st century already? 8-)

The short answer is that the Senate gives equal representation to the
states and that the House gives equal representation to the people.  In
a way that is what the electoral college tends to do in aggregate.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
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