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If the purpose of the senate is to provide equal representation to each state, can't that goal be accomplished by having one senator per state instead of two? How much money would we save, not just on the extra 50 senators' salaries and benefits but on all their staffers as well, office supplies, overhead, and other necessities of the job?
Perhaps because one of the founding ideas of America is to avoid too much concentration of power.