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An applicant notes: 'California has about forty million people and Wyoming has under a million, yet each state sends the same number of senators to Washington.' The officer asks why every state gets two senators.

Why does each state have two senators?

  1. To reflect each state's population
  2. Equal representation (for small states)
  3. To match the number of House seats each state has
  4. One senator for each major political party

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