Who? John Adams, for one - whose draft of the Massachusetts constitution became the model for many of the other 12 original states and the natural starting place for the national Constitution. Even though Adams was in Europe as the American ambassador to various royal courts during the time the Constitution was drafted and debated, he kept as close to the proceedings as the communications of the era could allow, and should be counted among the Framers even if in absentia.

Adams was instinctively suspicious of human nature in the aggregate - in direct contrast to Thomas Jefferson (and others like him) whose naive trust in the enlightening powers of pure democracy overlooked things like ignorance, greed, lack of education, and prejudices of all stripes - a.k.a. "special interests". Adams' Federalists eventually appeared to have been vindicated in their view by the horrors of the French Revolution.

Bicameralism, with one house elected directly and one not, was a compromise: another of the "checks and balances" we heard so much about in jr. high civics.

[I recommend Joseph Ellis' Founding Brothers, as well as his earlier biographies of Adams and Jefferson, Passionate Sage and American Sphinx, respectively]

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