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2.  The U.S. Senate was designed to be insulated against frequent elections.
 
2.  The U.S. Senate was designed to be insulated against frequent elections.
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''Response'': Perhaps the Senate ''as a whole'' was designed with the alternative election cycles (one-third of the Senate is elected every two years) in order to immunize the entire Senate from transient political fluctuations, but there was no intent to protect the jobs of individual senators.  Quite the contrary:  Alexander Hamilton stressed the importance of elections in promoting responsiveness by individual senators to their constituents.
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''Response'': Perhaps the Senate ''as a whole'' was designed with the staggered election cycles (one-third of the Senate is elected every two years) in order to immunize the entire Senate from transient political fluctuations, but there was no intent to protect the jobs of individual senators.  Quite the contrary:  Alexander Hamilton stressed the importance of elections in promoting responsiveness by individual senators to their constituents.
 
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