No, it was because the slave states didn't want to lose slavery in a Senate vote.
If you think CA is too populous for it's people deserve an equal vote, CA should be 6 states. But the slavers fought that too (Missouri Compromise).
State boundaries are legal constructs inherited from obsolete aristocracy, not meaningful cultural boundaries.
It makes no sense to solve a hypothetical tyranny of large states by replacing it with an actual tyranny of small states. The Constitution is We the People, not the We the States.
If you think CA is too populous for it's people deserve an equal vote, CA should be 6 states. But the slavers fought that too (Missouri Compromise).
State boundaries are legal constructs inherited from obsolete aristocracy, not meaningful cultural boundaries.
It makes no sense to solve a hypothetical tyranny of large states by replacing it with an actual tyranny of small states. The Constitution is We the People, not the We the States.