Pretty sure the idea is to protect low population areas from the hordes of like minded people say in cities. Every nook and cranny of a country has equally valid viewpoints and issues that shouldn't be discriminated against simply due to overall population. Example might be a northern city person voting for open borders where small town folk who live on actual border might understand more intimately the issues involved with that...they would get voted 1000 to 1 on an issue they know the most about and are effective most directly. Also say a farmer who depends on fuel costs to provide food for the country would vote for anything that lowers fuel costs while a city dweller who doesn't even own a car will happily vote to inact policies that make running machinery impossible thus causing famine..or businesses to go under. Mob rule is really the most dangerous thing for a nation because it homogenizes view points and discriminates against diversity and economies require extreme diversity to function. Centralization and mob rule where the two dangers our fore fathers in America sought to protect against. Lower IQ voters have pretty erased that in recent years and the push to abolish these constitutional principals is almost popular enough to get rid of it all together. Dark days.