re: Did the founders intend for 51% to have so much power?

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Don't forget that the original design was corrupted by the 17th Amendment. If the Senate represented states, the states would not easily create other states that would water down their power.

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All of this.

However, now that fair and honest elections, even state and local ones, are a thing of the past, anything vis a vis the Constitution is practically irrelevant.