'Using the filibuster as a means to prevent legislation from coming to the floor is at the least cowardly and because it, in spirit, goes against the very idea of our Constitutional Democracy, it is simply wrong.'
notes that the Senate has been a forum for free debate and the protection of political minorities. Here, the words has been is a key point.
This vision of the Senate was bitterly debated by the framers of the Constitution, as only five of the original thirteen states supported a Senate so structured. And this was a time when the population ratio between the largest state and the smallest was 13 to 1. That ratio now stands at 68 to 1 and it is growing wider year by year.
We have always hoped that elected officials would be rational, reasonable people that knew they or their party wouldn't always hold a majority. They knew they couldn't always win, but they could compromise and that eventually, the pendulum would swing and in time, they might hold the majority. Their charge should be to do their best, make their best arguments in the best interests of their constituents and the nation as a whole.
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