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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. Like its counterpart, the Senate was established by the United States Constitution and convened for its first meeting on March 4, 1789 at Federal Hall in New York City. 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 wou

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  • Geschichte des Senats der Vereinigten Staaten (de)
  • History of the United States Senate (en)
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  • Die Geschichte des Senats ist die Geschichte einer der beiden Kammern des Kongresses, dem Parlament der Vereinigten Staaten. Sie beginnt mit der Ratifikation der Verfassung am 4. März 1789. Der Senat entstand vor allem aus zwei verschiedenen Erwägungen. Zum einen sollte er, ähnlich dem britischen House of Lords, eine stabilisierende und mäßigende Wirkung auf die Legislative und das gesamte politische System der Vereinigten Staaten ausüben. Zum anderen setzten die kleineren Bundesstaaten durch, dass im Senat jeder Staat durch die gleiche Anzahl von Senatoren vertreten wird. Ihre Hoffnung, dadurch direkten Einfluss auf die politische Zentralgewalt zu gewinnen, zerschlug sich jedoch schnell. (de)
  • 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. Like its counterpart, the Senate was established by the United States Constitution and convened for its first meeting on March 4, 1789 at Federal Hall in New York City. 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 wou (en)
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