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Thanks for sending this to me FreeKeys. Impressive memory.

Here’s the deal. One Man One Vote is another way of mandating something that could be called “FLAT REPRESENTATION”. Recall the founding (tea party) principle - “No Taxation without Representation”. (The juxtoposition of Representation and Taxation was interestingly left out of section 2 of the 14th amendment, as originally made in Article I).
Implicit in this idea is that the KIND of taxation you have must be paired with the SAME kind of representation. If you have FLAT REPRESENTATION, you MUST HAVE FLAT TAXATION. The mindless mantra “one man one vote” therefore, if it is to be kept, must be appended, with something like “One Man, One Vote, One Tax”, and we adopt a truly Flat, non-progressive tax. Alternatively, if we’re going to have progressive taxation, we must have progressive representation, making a voter’s power proportional to the government’s power over the voter’s property.

Madison noted that the rights of property are not secure in a society with absolute universal (flat) suffrage. His hope was that the Senate, deriving from the states and not from the people could help protect the rights of property in the event we got to flat representation (in the House & Executive). However the senate is now popularly elected. The results are evident.