Does a nonproportional Senate and non-proportional, non-democratic Electoral College harm democracy?

[Spider Jerusalem]

45. That's kind of the point

things are set up the way they are precisely because the intent was to limit democracy. The mythic "founders" feared democracy as mob rule. The Electoral College exists because the number of electors were selected based on population, not on number of voters; at a time when only white male property owners could vote? The three-fifths compromise in the Constitution ensured the outsize influence of the South relative to its number of voters in national politics. The Senate is the same sort of thing, only it wasn't even democratic, originally (as Senators were appointed by state legislatures and not elected by voters), with the equal numbers of Senators ensuring that smaller states had more relative power (which was the scheme of representation under the Articles of Confederation and in the Continental Congress). See here for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise