Constitutional Creation

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eme Court justices serve for life and are completely removed from the voters. They are an elite group, made to make sure that the Constitution that the rich wrote to protect property will always serve its purpose.
Furthermore, since the amount and type of property qualifications to vote was left to the states to decide, there is a possibility for the states to set the property requirements so low, for example a pencil, that even the poor may be able to vote. In the unlikely condition that this would happen, the framers made sure that the voting poor would only be able to gain partial control only over the House of Representatives by creating indirect selection processes for all the other institutions. However, other plans were made in the Constitution to keep the poor influence out of the House as well.
Single-member plurality elections for the House, also keep the poor out from this institution. First, even if the poor gain voting power, they have low resources and not all of them will be able to vote. Even today, polls show that voting pe...