congress is a russian nesting doll of counter-majoritarian structures. seems to me that there's no need for a supermajority rule on top of that!

Ant trails. Illustration from ‘Ants, bees, and wasps; a record of observations on the habits of the social hymenoptera’. 1882

Illustration from Jules Verne’s ‘From the Earth to the Moon direct in ninety-seven hours and twenty minutes, and a trip round it.’ {1874}

Lawrence Olivier, Alexander Woollcott and Vivian Leigh, Neshobe Island, Lake Bomoseen, VT