Was the constitution framed as an elitist or populist document?

[jerusalemcar5]

or a mechanism such as the Electoral College which bypassed the State governments and went to directly to the voters.

Well the states did still have tehr right to decide how these electors were seected.  How long did South Carolina have the legislature select them?  That's hardly a bypass of state governments.

[Хahar 🤔]

Highly elitist. How else do you explain the Electoral College?

Even suffrage for all white males wouldn't be around for another half century or so.

Just my point.

[Beet]

The constitution was "framed as" a compromise. Its real purpose was in great part to check the excesses of the American revolution, which left the new nation with a relatively weak and unstable government. The Bill of Rights in turn was framed as a check on the expanded powers of the government enumerated in the constitution.

[Хahar 🤔]

The U.S. Constitution was one of the most radical documents ever written in the cause of freedom and republican model of government.  If you consider this document elitist, what would you consider Machiavelli?

Realistic.

The Magna Carta is perhaps more significant because if was the first written Constitution of any kind of govt.

That's a fairly loose definition of constitution.
 

Are some of you related to Karl Marx?

I am.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

The Constitution, from it's opening words of "We the people..." is a clearly populist document.  It was designed to protect the citizens from a distant, far away government.  While it is in some respects elitist, it was the best that could have been ratified, and many of its original mistakes have since been rectified.