7/5/2023 0 Comments History of the world senate![]() House. Edmund Randolph called for its members to be “less than the House of Commons … to restrain, if possible, the fury of democracy.” According to James Madison, “The use of the Senate is to consist in proceeding with more coolness, with more system, and with more wisdom, than the popular branch.” Instead of two-year terms as in the House, senators serve six-year terms, giving them more authority to ignore mass sentiment in favor of the country’s broad interests. Senate, named after the ancient Roman Senate, was designed as a more deliberative body than the U.S. The history of the institution begins prior to that date, at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, in James Madison’s Virginia Plan, which proposed a bicameral national legislature, and in the Connecticut Compromise, an agreement reached between delegates from small-population states and those from large-population states that in part defined the structure and representation that each state would have in the new Congress. Like its counterpart, the Senate was established by the United States Constitution and convened for its first meeting on Maat Federal Hall in New York City. The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives-the lower chamber-comprises the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. ![]() Senate was designed to be a more deliberative body than the U.S. The United States Capitol in 1800 / Public Domain ![]()
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