Michael Bennet: “There are supposed to be--not supposed to be; there are-- there are two Senators from every State. That is in the…”

“There are supposed to be--not supposed to be; there are-- there are two Senators from every State. That is in the Constitution. I don't think we are going to disagree about what that means. I know that people on the floor staff tonight are thinking: I wish there was one Senator from Colorado who would stop talking. And I will stop talking. But that is what it says, and I can read the plain meaning of that--``two Senators.'' But it becomes less clear when the words are things like--again, credit to Angus King--``due process,'' or when the words don't even show up in the Constitution of the United States--``Air Force''--because they didn't have a single plane when they wrote the Constitution of the United States. I think that Thomas Jefferson's view of this was certainly closer to mine than some others, which was that they expected the government to evolve. They expected the interpretation of these documents, over time, to evolve. That is a good reminder, by the way, of the disagreements that the Founders had, originally. As to their original intent, some of them were slaveholders, in the case of Thomas Jefferson, in the case of George Washington, in the case of Madison. Some of them were abolitionists, in the case of John Adams. But that was a fundamental thing that ended up being wrestled to a horrendous compromise that allowed slavery to continue in the United States of America, and the results of that horrible compromise are going to be with us for the rest of our days.…”