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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 you keep repeating this like it proves something, but it doesn't! your claim is that there is some greater reason that this exists beyond contingency, and i'm saying that there isn't — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 in any case, you are right to say that the small states were not going to sign on without equal state representation, but their case for equal state representation wasn't about population or geographical composition, it was simply that they used to have a veto & wanted to keep it — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 it is frankly incredibly frustrating (not to mention condescending) that you simply refuse to engage with the actual record of what these people argued and talked about at the constitutional convention where they made these decisions — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 You can keep saying "high-minded rhetoric," but you're the one who keeps referring to the high-minded after the fact justifications. Anyone who has spent anytime with the convention deliberations knows they were not "high-minded rhetoric," they were hard-nosed political arguments — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sam_d_1995: what the federal government is doing: demolishing buildings that could house hundreds of families what the federal governm… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 like, james madison literally says all of this at the convention! — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 insofar that the large states were distinct, it is because the largest of them — virginia and south carolina — had huge slave populations. otherwise, each state contained a diversity of interests and there was no correlation between bigness or smallness on those interests — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 "large state vs. small state," "rural vs. urban" these are all post-hoc justifications for a decision whose origins lay much more in the decision not to subsume the states into a larger federal entity than it did in any anxiety over the influence of "large states" — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 Small populations vs large populations weren't really the issue. None of the small state delegates had any theoretical reason for their support of equal state representation. It was a hard-nosed political move based upon their desire to retain influence. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 That's clear in all of the primary source documents as well as in the debates over ratification. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 But Delaware did not want an equal say because it was "rural." Both states were rural. Delaware wanted an equal say because it did not want to relinquish what it had held under the Articles. There was no great theoretical reason for equal state representation. — PolitiTweet.org

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everyone is a little stinker in the womb — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc @NGrossman81 But I challenge you to read any scholarship in the last thirty years on the constitutional convention to find anything about protecting "rural" interests. It wasn't a category that made sense at the time. — 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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@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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@connorjwills @TylerDinucci and if you don't give them a satisfactory answer, it will derail the class — PolitiTweet.org

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@TylerDinucci "ms. [redacted], do you have kids?" "it is not appropriate for me to answer that." [other child chimes in] "why not? can you just tell us if you have kids?" "no" [entire class begins bothering her about whether she has kids] — PolitiTweet.org

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@TylerDinucci also coming from people who very clearly have no knowledge of how classrooms work. like, my wife could not conceal details of her personal life if she tried. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TylerDinucci that's because the "issue" is that non-straight people make them feel icky — PolitiTweet.org

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bog standard anti-union talking points from another bodo's owner https://t.co/gqgzNdGxDi — PolitiTweet.org

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@TylerDinucci me to JR: "who told you this was happening" JR: "no one, i made it the fuck up" — PolitiTweet.org

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our local bagel shop has decided to follow the time-worn tactic of trying to defeat a unionization drive by breaking the law — PolitiTweet.org

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@tjsleakyroof it is — PolitiTweet.org

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@pareene this reminds me that i need to get my act together and harass one of my local theaters into letting me program something — PolitiTweet.org

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@pareene i think i said this on here at some point but i recently saw EASY RIDER on the big screen and while that movie isn't for me, i can totally understand why people lost their minds. the images of fonda and hopper riding their choppers down western highways are magical. — PolitiTweet.org

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i just like movies babyyyy https://t.co/tK6alLfKsE — PolitiTweet.org

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if you're wondering how i can be effusive for both total genre trash and high-minded art films, this is why — PolitiTweet.org

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ethan hawke is right — PolitiTweet.org

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(and why the employers who contribute to republicans can live with the demonization of undocumented workers; it produces the fear that enables them to better discipline their workforces) — PolitiTweet.org