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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 2468360" data-attributes="member: 7966">It is definitely an ideological one for me.It is to keep a balance of power between the higher population states and the lower population states.Each state has a given level of power upon which is added the population factor.It worked then and it works now.I do not want the East and West coasts making decisions for the rest of the country.It was put in place to ensure the forming of the United States.So smaller, less populous states would not be ruled by the larger, more populous states.This was a concern of Mass, RI, DE over the power of NY and SC at the time.</blockquote>