Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
by knubie on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:50PM
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The Senate represents the individual states, not the people. The fact that relatively small states like Delaware have as much representation in the Senate as large populous states like New York is by design, and was a critical for the creation of the Union in the first place.
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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
by dctoedt on Thursday June 30, 2022 @10:00PM
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> The fact that relatively small states like Delaware have as much representation in the Senate as large populous states like New York is by design, and was a critical for the creation of the Union in the first place.
Yeah, but conditions have changed somewhat since 1787 — not least, what genteel white Southern ladies used to sometimes refer to as The Late Unpleasantness (1861-65).