You said it yourself in another post: they were just copying the British. The Virginians, that aristocratic lot, would have and did prefer features like the Se

You said it yourself in another post: they were just copying the British. The Virginians, that aristocratic lot, would have and did prefer features like the Senate, which would have provided a counterweight to the more radical House. It's that way even today. I can't speak further to the historical context, but everything I've read about federation/modern/consensus democracies suggest that bicameralism is a benefit (ex http://wikisum.com/w/Lijphart:_Patterns_of_democracy http://wikisum.com/w/Lijphart:_Patterns_of_democracy). Again, that's not saying that's what they were considering then, but also read some of the Federalist Papers (Madison in particular) and how much they were weighing factions/balance of power into some of these solutions.