Not gonna lie this looks super cool . <| sep |> I think one way to try and make sense of this aspect of the system the founding fathers created is to consider that a farmer ' s or frontiersman ' s way of life requires substantially more land per capita than a citydweller ' s . It ' s possible to imagine farmers fearing that the concentrated population of voters around cities could outvote them and have outsize influence while only being able to survive because the farmers in the sparsely populated areas were supplying them with food . I don ' t know how realistic that is , but given what things were like in Europe at the time with decadent aristocracy living off the produce of vast stretches of countryside tended by the poor , they may have felt farmers were due some influence beyond their numbers . Also , there ' s the whole mustownlandtovote debacle .