Related Citations

  • Richard Albert, America’s Amoral Constitution, 70 Am. U. L. Rev. 773 (2021).

    Arguing that the Equal Suffrage Clause was designed as a federalist barrier to constitutional change and was understood as an assurance to small states that their interests would not be easily overridden by larger, more populist states.

  • Scott J. Bowman, Wild Political Dreaming: Constitutional Reformation of the United States Senate, 72 Fordham L. Rev. 1017 (2004).

    Concluding that the Equal Suffrage Clause was understood to prevent small states from being powerless against more populous states, acting as a counterbalance to the House of Representatives. And suggesting that the original intent of the Framers and constitutional design may have been to disallow amending Article V’s promise of equal suffrage.

  • Benjamin Lieber, On Supermajorities and the Constitution, 83 Geo. L.J. 2347 (1995).

    Contending, based on ratification debates and the Federalist Papers, that the Equal Suffrage Clause reflected a concern about preserving state sovereignty and was a necessary compromise to entice small states to join the union and relinquish power to the federal government.