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    1. Dan listens to Grandpa Irvie's poetry‏ @danlistensto 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @Aelkus @eigenrobot @AlexGodofsky

      I don't think any faction should expect to get what they want out of a major change to the constitution. I think it should be changed because it's broken.

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    2. Dan listens to Grandpa Irvie's poetry‏ @danlistensto 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @danlistensto @Aelkus and

      also, the filibuster is a parliamentary procedural rule that managed to find a loophole to exploit in the way congressional debate is conducted. it was prominent, but not a fundamental structure defined by the constitution.

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    3. Dan listens to Grandpa Irvie's poetry‏ @danlistensto 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @danlistensto @Aelkus and

      the underlying problem being the constitutional structures defined to control the appointment of high stakes positions (particularly supreme court justices) was broken because the Senate is broken.

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    4. Recently Converted Ronanist‏ @Bugs_Meany 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @danlistensto @Aelkus and

      I don't understand the point of the word "broken" unless you're suggesting that it in the past it used to function correctly as designed but now (or recently) stopped doing so. When did it work correctly, in your opinion; and why did it stop?

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    5. Dan listens to Grandpa Irvie's poetry‏ @danlistensto 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @Bugs_Meany @Aelkus and

      it never functioned correctly. it was broken at inception. the Senate is one of the reasons legal slavery persisted all the way until 1863 and it caused absurd distortions like states being admitted in pairs (1 free and 1 slave) in the antebellum period.

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @danlistensto @Bugs_Meany and

      what do you think wouldve happened to laws wrt slavery without the senate earlier in the union when southern states dominated

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    7. Dan listens to Grandpa Irvie's poetry‏ @danlistensto 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @eigenrobot @Bugs_Meany and

      no union. multiple nations on the continent.

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @danlistensto @Bugs_Meany and

      that also seems bad how long do you think southern slavery would have persisted then

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    9. Dan listens to Grandpa Irvie's poetry‏ @danlistensto 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @eigenrobot @Bugs_Meany and

      shorter. they either would have been outright attacked by an abolitionist coalition (which is close to what did happen, historically) or they would have folded to economic competition much sooner (which is plausible given industrialization in the 19th century).

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    10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @danlistensto @Bugs_Meany and

      naw separate nations wouldve had less friction than one nation with conflicting laws

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Mar 2019
      Replying to @eigenrobot @danlistensto and

      plus the uk and other nations would've been able to sell the south arms and they super would have

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        2. Dan listens to Grandpa Irvie's poetry‏ @danlistensto 19 Mar 2019
          Replying to @eigenrobot @Bugs_Meany and

          they already did in the historical civil war. I doubt it would have influenced the outcome. the northern states had far greater population size, industrial base, exploited natural resources, and transportation infrastructure. it was always a mismatch.

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        3. Dan listens to Grandpa Irvie's poetry‏ @danlistensto 19 Mar 2019
          Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot and

          but that's besides the point. what I'm interested in thinking about is how international economic competition would have rendered the slave plantation economies obsolete without a war being fought over it. the British Caribbean colonies abolished slavery earlier, in 1833.

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