• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The Senate isn’t intended to be a representative body, it’s just two per state. They aren’t doing things like setting funding/budgets. Congress (the house of representatives) is designed to do that, though that needs some tweaking.

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      8 months ago

      The Senate isn’t intended to be a representative body

      Both the house and senate vote to pass bills. The disproportionate population increases have led to less representation of citizens in more populated states.

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        8 months ago

        But the original states didn’t have balanced populations, the founders knew that, but they still set it to be two senators per state. The house is scaled by population.