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Why does each state get two Senators?
The US Senate own's history page says:
Delegates also agreed that one senator per state would not be enough, as absence of a single senator due to illness or death would leave states without ...
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MPs assuming office on the day of the election
I believe the confusion here is that in the UK "on the day of the election" and when "the vote tally is known" are, usually, the same (or at least, vote tallies are known before ...
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Why do big states have more representatives rather than more voting power via weighted voting?
Weighted voting treats each state as a monolithic block that only has one opinion. But for large states, this is rarely true. The needs and concerns of rural parts of a state will often be very ...
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Why does each state get two Senators?
The US government has this to say about OP's question:
Once delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed on equal state representation in the Senate on July 16, they needed to determine how many ...
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Why do big states have more representatives rather than more voting power via weighted voting?
Insofar as the purpose of the body is to represent the disparate opinions and interests of numerous other persons, weighted voting is less representative than increasing the number of the delegation.
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Why does each state get two Senators?
Switzerland also has a chamber called the States' council (conseil des États / Ständerat) with a fixed number of representative per province (canton / Kanton). Traditionally, it's two like in the US ...
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