• Why the US senate?

    From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Dale Shipp on Wed Jul 29 18:32:34 2020
    With all the amendments, it's not really intact, is it?
    But how well is it conforming to the original idea?

    Pretty well, except that right now it is being stretched to the limit.

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

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



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  • From Dale Shipp@1:261/1466 to BjöRn Felten on Thu Jul 30 01:41:02 2020
    On 07-29-20 18:32, Bj”rn Felten <=-
    spoke to Dale Shipp about Why the US senate? <=-


    With all the amendments, it's not really intact, is it?
    But how well is it conforming to the original idea?

    Pretty well, except that right now it is being stretched to the limit.

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

    A club of 100 millionaires that is supposed to oversee what the 435 commoners in the house are doing? Oh, yes we had that
    elitism even in Sweden, but we abandoned it in 1969. Is it
    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
    (1:261/1466)


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