# Proposal/Change US Constitition/Elections

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-change-us-constitition-elections/558137>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 23, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-change-us-constitition-elections/558137 "2010-10-23T22:16:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-change-us-constitition-elections/558137/21 "2010-10-27T16:42:47Z")

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> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#):
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> You didn’t read the four remaining sentences because the didn’t make sense to you?

No, I said “I skipped all the sentence fragments”. The remaining complete sentences I read - they just reflected a very poor understanding the US governmental structure and why it’s set up that way.

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**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-change-us-constitition-elections/558137/22 "2010-10-27T19:22:15Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> No, I said “I skipped all the sentence fragments”. The remaining complete sentences I read - they just reflected a very poor understanding the US governmental structure and why it’s set up that way.

How can you determine a sentence fragment if you didn’t read the fragment ?

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-change-us-constitition-elections/558137/23 "2010-10-28T19:22:23Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> The original intention of the constitutional framers was to make the House very responsive to trends and changes in electorate desires, but the Senate, with 6 yr terms, was intended to be more stable and less easily swayed. Changing either term length would tend to upset this concept.

Unless you’re going to argue that the framers were time travelers from the future, & thus had more historical knowledge of a functional popular democracy than we have today, their ideas have to be taken as early hypotheses, & their framework as an early stage of experiment. We don’t have to keep a damn thing if we don’t want to.

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