The U.S. Senate

[James E. White]

Somewhat analogous to the veto power of specific single UN members is the issue of 2 state Senators for even the low population states. Some other mechanism is needed that guarantees that more populous states cannot gang up on the low population states and yet the low population states cannot gang up on the high population states. The answer will not be easy but good faith must guide it and whatever it is good faith must honor it. The Founders understood the issue but left it unsolved with the following embedded in Article IV of the Constitution "and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."