“Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.” — Richard Berkeley Cotten.
The Powers and duties of the Senate:
In all civilized countries, the people fall into different classes having a real or supposed difference of interests. There will be creditors and debtors, farmers, merchants and manufaqcturers. There will be particularly the distinction of rich and poor.
"An increase in population will of necessity increase the proportion of those who will labour under all hardships of life and secretly sigh for A MORE EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF ITS BLESSINGS. These may in time outnumber those who are placed above the feelings of indigence. According to the laws of equal, the power will soon slide into the hands of the former".
As soon as the poor could outvote the rich, they would make plans for a more equal distribution of wealth.
And the Senaste, to makle sure it would vote down these "symptoms of a levelling spirit", must be a highly respectable body.
A long term for Senators would help Madision concluded, - help to protect the rich against the "injustice" of popular laws, of a sort we know all too sadly from "our own experience".
Obama's plan is NOT what our government intended.