Senate and Electoral College

From Yates's Notes on the Constitutional Convention, July 3d:

"Many of the members, impressed with the utility of a general government, connected with it the indispensable necessity of a representation from the States according to their numbers and wealth; while others, equally tenacious of the rights of the States, would admit of no other representation but such as was strictly federal, or in other words, equality of suffrage."

This shows that the composition of the Senate and that of the Electoral College are designed to protect the "rights of the States"--that is, the reserved powers of the states and the wishes of the inhabitants of all the states, including the smaller ones.