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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 The small states who insisted on equal state representation were less concerned with protecting "rural interests" then they were worried that larger states would essentially try to eliminate them as political entities. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 This is not true. There were no meaningfully urban states in 1787. Equal state representation in the Senate is primarily a holdover from the Articles, a holdover of which the most influential delegates at the Convention were opposed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 As for the Senate itself, it was created as a mechanism to restrain whatever democratic impulses might emerge in the House, as well as a place for states as independent political entities to have direct influence on federal policymaking. — PolitiTweet.org

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