Which of the following descriptions BEST captures popular attitudes toward the Senate in the late nineteenth century?
A) the government body most in tune with the will of the American people
B) a powerless body that placidly rubberstamped presidential initiatives
C) a source of progressive, even radical, policy initiatives
D) a group of nonpartisan, deliberative elder statesmen
E) a millionaire's club beholden to party bosses and big business
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