Senate size

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Often appears with: state influence in federal elections · political legitimacy and consent · independence of legislative branches · faction, party, and civil strife · election of senators · bicameral legislature · assemblies, councils, and senates

Usually: narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · skepticism (1)

The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1 primary

United States. Constitutional Convention (recorded by James Madison) · 1787 (composed during the convention; Madison’s notes later revised)
part of the Fifth Article of the Confederation of the said > letter, and with the same ink. It is undoubtedly (13/15)

In the Convention’s debate over the second branch of the legislature, Randolph, King, Wilson, Madison, and others argue over Senate size and independence, warning that local interests and proportionality would distort elections.

called on M^r Randolph the mover of the propositions, to explain the extent of his ideas, and particularly the number of members he meant to assign to this second branch. M^r Rand^f observed that he had at the time of offering his propositions stated his ideas as far as the nature of general propositions required; that details made no part of the plan, and could not perhaps with propriety have been introduced. If he…