@Bill1939 I don’t think the founders took for granted this would all work out.
They definitely built “off switches” into the system, and even seem preoccupied with just that.
After eons of servitude, it looks to me that these fellows, for once, thought they were grasping the reins of fair representation.
It seems like once they had that control, their first order of business was to put rule by elites in a hermetic little box.
For me, that is the biggest distinction they made that broke with the past of power.
The founders focused on perpetuating their revolution forever. Instead of calling it a day with the triumph over the king, they went further and looking into the nature of man to abuse power they chose the root cause and isolated tyranny by arming the citizens with the basis to challenge it even if they found themselves friendless, penniless, and empty-handed.
In other words, tyranny was much like a Mr. Potatohead that they pulled the limbs off of, throwing some away, keeping others, and handing some over to the people.