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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (538896)12/27/2009 4:00:20 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1576887
 
It is now mostly urban but the agarian[sic] states have as much influence as the urban states.

Nonsense. Arkansas doesn't have as much influence as New York or California or Texas and it shouldn't. But we ARE a state and

You need to read up on your history. This issue was hotly debated and was then, as it is today, a large-state/small-state argument. Had nothing to do with the "agrarian" nature of the states; it had to to with states rights.

The Great Compromise didn't just happen. The Founders thought about it long and hard.

And frankly, it is moot point; there is no way it would ever be changed.
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