Historically, did proportional representation benefit the wealthy, the nobility or the slave owners? Or some portion of each?
When you look at the US electoral college, those are the groups it looks like it was designed to help. Since there are no (few) slave owners in the US anymore, only the nobility (old families) and the wealthy (old families plus new money families) really benefit.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of ...
I wonder if capitalizing the word People indicates that the constitution was written for a Gentleman's club named "the People". I guess we'll never know. A Gentleman never tells.
It will have been some portion of each no doubt. The ones in power always create processes to protect their power. I get very suspicious when I can't really understand the rules to the voting. Why so opaque?
Then again, maybe I really am an idiot :0)