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It’s not that land gets a votes, it’s that the States get votes. The original notion was that the House represents the People and the Senate represents the States. It’s why Senators were originally appointed by each state, but the House was always elected.

Because the original vision under the Constitution was a much weaker federal government and states being mostly independent, but that ship long ago sailed and bolted on a rocket booster after the civil war.

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