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  1. Electoral College exists to overweight slave states. So does Senate. Get rid of EC, but does that mean changing apportionment of the latter?
    1. …in reply to @Noleli
      The federalists clearly won, national loyalty > state loyalty. Otoh, progressive policies (e.g., marriage equality) also started w/states
    2. …in reply to @Noleli
      RT [🔒] I could be wrong, but Wikipedia says the opposite is true. Slave states favored proportional representation: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise