08-24-2023, 05:16 PM
(08-24-2023, 05:00 PM)Dill Wrote: Yow. That's not "predicated on minority control."
It is as you chose to define it in the post I quoted.
Quote:The senate was created so there would be a "department" (as Madison called it) in which the states could meet as equal powers,
regardless of population. It's members were to serve for 6 years so they could be more "deliberative" and not have to worry about
reelection every two years.
Indeed, yet you see the Senate as a place in which minority populations equal or exceed the power of higher population states. This is an argument you specifically made. Again, as I quoted above.
Quote:"Predicated" would mean the point of the institution was intended to enable a minority party to control legislation, and through that control,
the government itself. It was not.
And again, it is the way you chose to define it. Your issue is with your own definition, not with my reading what you actually wrote.
