Basically, the Democratic Party wants to remove every constitutional and institutional restraint — the Electoral College, equal state representation in the Senate, the filibuster, the 9 seat limit on the Supreme Court, etc. — that is a restraint upon unlimited political power.

Today, most of the country does not want to be ruled by the cultural and political preferences of people who live in California or New York. We had the same situation in 1787, except substitute Virginia and one or two other states for California.

This is why we have an Electoral College and equal representation in the Senate. Our Founding Fathers rejected democracy in part because it would lead to few states with large populations imposing their will on many more smaller states. The smaller states didn’t want that.

Moreover, the House and Senate are structured so that the House is more representative of the population as a whole, but the Senate is more representative of the states as equals regardless of their size or population. The second is a check on the first.

And the Electoral College was designed in large part so that the president could not win simply by counting on the popular vote that would come largely from a few states. He had to be acceptable to enough of all the states as well. We mess with this balance at our peril.

The Senate filibuster rule is not a constitutional restraint, but it serves some of the same purposes as the Electoral College and equal representation in the Senate. It guarantees that any law or nominee must obtain broad bipartisan support from both large and small states.

In this regard, the Founding Fathers did consider whether to require more than a majority vote to pass legislation. They worried that the House would be more prone to pass rash, ill-considered, populist legislation. Remember: originally Senators were appointed, not elected.

Last, Congress does have the power to expand the Supreme Court. But the Platonic notion of that court as a super legislature of philosopher kings is a 20th century progressive leftist invention. Our Founding Fathers were mostly followers of Locke and Aristotle, not Plato.