Reply #34: Your argument doesn't work

[knight_of_the_star]

The Senate is popularly elected now, so your argument about it being the bastion of "the priveleged and wealthy" doesn't hold water. That and the idea behind having only 1/3rd of the Senate elected at a time as well as 6 year terms was to prevent the tyranny of the majority. It is there to prevent the kind of power that exists when you get the man on the white horse.