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Old 03-13-2014, 10:12 PM
 
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Could it be, a voice of a state was being silenced?
Did they realized everyone is represented in a free nation?

America is a Republic, not a Quaker meeting. We don't operate on consensus and so with every contested vote the voice of a state is being silenced. Sometimes senators from specific states are in the majority sometimes they are in the minority. I am not saying we let folks change the Constitution by majority vote, but in the senate we have tyranny of the minority where a disgruntled few can cause chaos and force the hand of the majority by threatening to blow things up. That is not a model for success, quite the opposite as history proves.

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Old 03-14-2014, 09:11 AM
 
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Which parts of "power-sharing" and "federal republic" do you not understand?

Your premise fails because you can't seem to think for yourself, otherwise, you'd know that republicanism is a form of democracy, and that the people elect their State government officials.
You are not very bright. He's talking about abolishing the senate which has nothing to do with the stupid word games you're trying to play.
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