If Congress can apply money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care o… - James Madison

The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa, or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge of the wants or feelings of the day laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. ... unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of the landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes...

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than War, War is better than tribute.

[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.