Reply #5: The states got together to write the Constitution, not

[Yupster]

the people.

Therefore the Constitution was made very friendly to the states, not the people.

The President was elected by electors, who were to be chosen by the state legislatures, not by any popular vote of the people.

The Senators were to be chosen by state legislatures too.

Only the House of Representatives (the People's House) was to be elected by the people.

A side note. The Lincoln Douglas debates were a true disaster to Douglas. Lincoln forced him into a corner on slavery, so that when he ran for President in 1860, the southern Democrats wouldn't support him and split the party. The ironic part was that the debates were completely unnecessary as the senator was chosen by the state legislature. There was no election, and with Douglas' Democrats in full control of the legislature, he had the seat sown up regardless of debates.