Related Citations
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David S. Yellin, The Elements of Constitutional Style: A Comprehensive Analysis of Punctuation in the Constitution, 79 Tenn. L. Rev. 687, 731-33 (2012).
Discussing the meaning of the Senate Composition Clause’s semicolon in analyzing the grammatical rules observed by the Constitution.
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Jay S. Bybee, Ulysses at the Mast: Democracy, Federalism, and the Sirens’ Song of the Seventeenth Amendment, 91 Nw. U. L. Rev. 500, 513 (1997).
Arguing that Senate representation was a potent safeguard against federal overreach and noting that “[s]tate legislatures stood to mediate between the national government and the people, both for the state’s account and the account of the people.”