Or read The Federalist Papers -- it's all laid out there plain as day. Madison and Hamilton didn't mince words. See esp. Fed. 51. I'd start there.
For more scholarly detail from a centralist and somrwhatone nonstandard perspective, there are laso Akhil Reed Amar's books on The American Constitution and on The Bill of Rights. But Lazare's book is good too, if very polemical.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 7, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour
> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know a resource on how parts of the US
> gov't were
> > intentionally structured in a non-democratic way
> by the constitutional
> > framers? (So for example, it might explain why
> they believed that the
> > Senate would turn out to be more accountable to
> wealthy property
> > owners than to the people.)
>
> For a recent version of this, check out Dan Lazare's
> The Frozen
> Republic. Used on Amazon for $2.87.
>
> Doug
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