Is Congress really the "people's branch"? Compare the two chambers of Congress in terms of how responsive they are to the will of the people

Answer:

An ideal response will:
1. Recount the intent of the Framers in balancing the will of the people against cool, collected consideration of policy issues. Terms of office in the House and Senate reflect this goal, to make House members more responsive to constituents and to provide members of the Senate with more insulation from factions.
2. Discuss how the power of incumbency is seen as less powerful in the Senate than in the House. And yet the majority of senators are reelected, some for decades.
3. Describe how the Seventeenth Amendment made the Senate more accountable by establishing direct election of senators. And yet governors appoint new senators for vacant seats, while in the House, a special election is held.
4. Examine the current demographics of the Senate in contrast to the public, noting senators tend to be wealthier, more educated, racially homogenous (white), and male, compared to the public and even the House of Representatives.
5. Mount an argument about how American democracy is or is not served by this design.