[lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!!

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 3 12:57:02 PST 2010


At 12:32 PM 2/3/2010, Matthias Wasser wrote:


>You're confusing two separate features of the Senate. Madison et al. didn't
>think that the Senate would act as a check on popular will because it
>overrepresented the citizens of small states.

We're talking about the way things have worked out over time.


>They thought it would because Senators were designed to be less
>directly accountable to the
>citizens of their states, whether big or small,

Which is precisely what Doug said:


>The whole point of the Senate is to act as an
>elite check on popular sentiments.



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