Each state gets two senators, regardless of population.
Each state, regardless of population, is entitled to two senators.
In 1787, when the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention adopted the absurd rule of two senators per state regardless of population, it almost broke Madison's heart.
Hamilton hated — hated — the compromise under which the Constitutional Convention was blackmailed into giving every state the same number of senators regardless of population.
In most federations the units have formally equal status, regardless of population, so voters in small units fare better.
The undemocratic Senate Every schoolchild is taught why the Senate has two senators from every state, regardless of population.
Once slavery was removed, the most undemocratic remaining provision of the Constitution was, and is, the composition of the Senate — its so-called equality of representation, whereby each state gets two senators regardless of population.
Some of these mechanisms, such as the rule of two senators per state regardless of population, remain, in their not-very-much-changed modern form, the insurance industry's best friends and the hapless patient's worst enemies).
The remaining votes, reflecting the extra electoral votes every state gets regardless of population, go to the winner of the statewide popular vote.
With two senators for each state regardless of population, the Senate reflects the founders' dread of an over-mighty centre and the states' determination to entrench their prerogatives.
