WikiLeaks Reveals Global Trade Deal Kept More Secret Than the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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50. The Framers feared the common herd almost as much as any dictatorial monarch did.

That is obvious from the notes of the secret meetings of the Framers while they were deciding how the government should be structured. And they really allowed the common herd a vote only on House members. Everything else, including who the Senators were, was either by vote of Congress or by vote of state legislature. Hence, the Senate got more powers than did the "elected by the rabble" House.

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

And who knows what was deliberately left out of even the notes of the secret meetings? They, of all people, would have been careful about what they put in writing. I've read minutes of meetings that I've attended and noted the "sanitization" of the minutes, as compared with the actual meeting.

For that matter, why were the Framers even holding secret meetings about the Constitution?

Forgive my rant. I am just weary of Framer worship.

We're so damned brainwashed!