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[Keith Broaders]

From 1787 to 1913 every state in the United States was representrd in the Senate. The states all had a voice and vote on all proposed legislation. in the senate.

In Article V in the Constitution there is a clause that prohibited Congress from ever proposing an amendment that would dprive a state of its equal suffrage in the senae without their consent.

In 1913 Congress violated the Constitution and proposed an amendment that would allow for the direct election of senators.. 

When this amendment was ratified or bicameral legislture became a uncameral legislatures with two chambers representing a single constituency. This amendment made the tyranny of the majority inevitible.

The bicameral legislature was established to prevent the states with the largest poulations from completely dominating the people living in the small states.

The 17th Amendment removed from the small statethe abilityto prevent the tyranny of the majority.