Broken Government

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(09-23-2020, 06:42 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: For Senate there is only two.  Like is or not our nation is a union of quasi independent states and it was very important to the Framers that those states have a large, and often disproportionate, say in the national government. 



Sorry, but that's parsing hairs a bit.  The crux of the reason the Senate exists is to give each state an equal say in the upper house.  How those senators are elected/appointed is tertiary to that intent.


Of course not, hence the constitutional amendment process.  They did a damn sight better job than anyone else of their time and we still have the only government with the types of rights we enjoy on the planet.  I'm talking about all rights btw.

a direct election of the executive doesn't make it any less of a federal system. 

You can call it parsing hairs, but you said "exact" and its a fundamental shift and one of only 27 formal changes we've made to our constitution in 230+ years.