text: what were the framers' intentions for the legislative branch of the american government.?   the framer's of our constitution intentions was to have a cross section of the american people serving in the u.s. congress.  what has happened is that you have to be rich in order to get elected therefore we are being represented by the top 2% of the government that gets the largest tax breaks.  is anybody seeing a theme here.  we have both liberal and conservative millionaires in this country and i find it very hard to believe that any rich person actually has the poor peoples needs at heart.  the reason that the liberals are having so much trouble getting candidates elected these days is the fact that people are starting to see through this as well as the fact that the voter's that vote are actually more conservative.  for any election there are 40% of voting age population not voting and no one knows where they stand except with the apathetic.