That's what it was designed to be, a 18th century elector selected Constitutional monarchy. And the Senate was supposed to be an 18th century selected House of Lords. Only the House of Representatives was supposed to be directly elected, with two year terms to keep it weak, and without the powers that the House of Commons accumulated during the Napoleonic Wars, aka World War Number One.

Its an awfully old governmental system we have in the US. Yurpeans tend to have more modern 19th century institutions, either by evolution or tearing down and reconstruction of Republics.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.