Less wisdom and more necessity. The other states weren't keen on being dominated by Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, which together accounted for abou

Less wisdom and more necessity. The other states weren't keen on being dominated by Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, which together accounted for about 50% of the population. Anyhow, the vast majority of the country was rural and agricultural. The wisdom of the Senate was quite literal--30-year minimum age limit, 6-year terms, and an expectation that states would send elder statesmen as it was legislatures that selected their senators. As Alexis De Tocqueville described it, > At a few yards' distance from this spot is the door of the Senate, which contains within a small space a large proportion of the celebrated men of America. Scarcely an individual is to be perceived in it who does not recall the idea of an active and illustrious career: the Senate is composed of eloquent advocates, distinguished generals, wise magistrates, and statesmen of note, whose language would at all times do honor to the most remarkable parliamentary debates of Europe. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm