federalist paper #63:

[a] well-constructed senate [would be] sometimes necessary as a defence to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions, [because] there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn

call it then: “the artful misrepresentations of interested men”