Funny, I was just reading about this.The theory was that congress got 2-year terms, and they'd be the highly-responsive high-turnover innovators, because they were so reliant on being re-elected.
The senate got 6-year terms so that, free from the worry of short-term vote-grubbing, they would give the somber serious long-term review of what those puppies in the House came up with.
It's the House of Commons/House of Lords theory, but without peerages.
However, because of congressional gerrymandering, it's easier for a congressperson to be re-elected more than 3 times than it is for a senator to be re-elected once.
From The Assault On Reason, Al Gore.
[Systemic corruption makes it all a moot point, anyway.]
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The senate got 6-year terms so that, free from the worry of short-term vote-grubbing, they would give the somber serious long-term review of what those puppies in the House came up with.
It's the House of Commons/House of Lords theory, but without peerages.
However, because of congressional gerrymandering, it's easier for a congressperson to be re-elected more than 3 times than it is for a senator to be re-elected once.
From The Assault On Reason, Al Gore.
[Systemic corruption makes it all a moot point, anyway.]
