The entire purpose of the Senate is to balance the power of the House, to mitigate states with large populations overpowering states with smaller populations.
The entire purpose of the Senate is to balance the power of the House, to mitigate states with large populations overpowering states with smaller populations.
Then the 17th Amendment changed all that and made senators elected by popular votes just like the house members. This, IMO, eliminated the primary reason for having a Senate at all (to represent states). It now simply (poorly) duplicates the same purpose of the House (to represent the people).
The entire purpose of the Senate was to protect slavery, the same as granting slave states extra House seats based on 3/5 of their enslaved population, the same as building the electoral college on top of the representation formulas for those institutions, and the same as writing express protections for the international slave trade into the Constitution. That slavery was a looming conflict and that democratic representation doomed it over time was both clear at the time of the Constitution and, if not sufficiently mitigated, a deal-breaker for the slave-reliant states.
Given that Delaware was the state that proposed it, that seems unlikely.
I don't have a strong opinion on this aspect of representation in elected federal government, but at point do we accept that structures have become suboptimal for a vastly changed country and society?
How does that relate to the dissolution of a body meant to protect the interests of the minority?