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Federalism
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The States' House
The Senate was never meant to be a second House. It was the chamber of the states, the states’ structural check on the federal government, until a 1913 amendment cut that wire and turned both chambers over to the same electorate. The …
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The States Choose the President
The Electoral College is not a defect in an otherwise democratic system. It is the presidency built to the same plan as the Senate and the amendment rule and the whole compound structure: a union of states, choosing together, so that a …