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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
There was 11 states or something like that when the constitution came into play. Most of the empty states came along like 100 years later.
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At the founding there were already huge population disparities between states like Delaware (59k) and Virginia (747k). And Montana had a tiny fraction of the population of New York when it joined. They still got two senators.
It’s not an accident of history that the senate isn’t representative of the population. The founders deliberately set it up that way.