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Equal representation in the United States Senate
To answer your question, delegates to the Constitutional Convention from the smaller (less populous) states were worried that they would be marginalized in a new country where legislative representation was based strictly on population. The resulting "Great Compromise" provided for a bicameral (two-house) national legislature. Representation in the House of Representatives was to be apportioned by population, but every state would have the same number of representatives in the Senate. This was an arrangement that the delegates from all the states were willing to live with. This is also why equal representation for each state in the Senate is explicitly entrenched in the Constitution — no amendment can deprive any state of equality in the Senate without its consent. Richwales 17:41, 28 July 2007 (UTC)