What MIGHT Have Dems Done To Stop GOP On The Fillibuster? (title change)

[eniwetok]

39. what's the REAL intent of the Senate? Why do you believe those civics lessons?

On the surface it's what that official explanation that you regurgitated from your civics class. But that's the problem with believing the Federalist Papers told the truth... as opposed to were just designed to get the states to ratify the Constitution. From the secret minutes of the so-called Constitutional Convention... ya, even that name is a misleading rewrite of history since the convention was NOT assigned the task of writing a new constitution BUT TO FIX THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION.

MADISON: Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability. Various have been the propositions; but my opinion is, the longer they continue in office, the better will these views be answered.


http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/yates.asp

And was the EC really designed, as Hamilton claimed, to prevent a demagogue from becoming president? Or was it to magnify the vote of whites in slaves states? From the July 19 notes of the Convention

MADISON: The people at large was in his opinion the fittest in itself. It would be as likely as any that could be devised to produce an Executive Magistrate of distinguished Character. The people generally could only know & vote for some Citizen whose merits had rendered him an object of general attention & esteem. There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_719.asp