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How was representation in congress to be based according to the terms of the great comprise?
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What branch of congress is based on proportional representation?
The House of Representatives is based on population and is proportional.
What number was the northern representation in congress based on?
In the House, it was based on Population of Citizens as established by the Constitution.
What was the decision to have two houses of Congress with one house's representation based on population and the other on equal representation called?
The Great Compromise :D
Is Representation in the Constitution based upon statehood and each state's population?
I'm assuming you mean in Congress, the only branch where each state is individually represented. Yes, representation in the House of Representatives is based upon population, but there is a fixed number of representatives at 435, meaning that, with changing population, states could lose or gain seats in the House. However, representation in the Senate is equal for all states with 2 senators each. Territories do not have representation in Congress, though Washington, D.C. has a non-voting delegation to Congress.
Congress under the articles of confederation had representation based on?
one vote per state
What Southern states felt that representation should be based on the number of?
Northern states felt that representation in Congress should be based on the number of free people. Southern states believed that representation should be based on total population, which included slaves.
Which house of congress is base on equal representation?
The Senate is the house of Congress that is based on equal representation. The House of Representatives is numbered based on the population of the state but the Senate has equal representation for even states with a lower population.
What branch of congress is based on proportional representation?
The House of Representatives is based on population and is proportional.
What group of states favored a Congress based on equal representation?
hehehe
Did the Virginia Plan propose representation in Congress based on population?
yes
What house of Congress has it representation based on the states poplulation?
The House of Representatives.
The Virginia plan proposed that representation in congress be based on?
Representation should be determined by population. While the New Jersey plan proposed representation would be equal for all states. :)
What number was the northern representation in congress based on?
In the House, it was based on Population of Citizens as established by the Constitution.
How did the great compromise solve the problem of the representation in congress?
It solved the problem of representation in congress because the house of representatives was based on proportional representation (# of representatives based on population) which made the larger states happy and the Senate was based on equal representation (each state got two representatives) which made the small states happy. So each state was represented.
Under the Virginia Plan representation in congress would would have been based on?
The representation was based on the states population and the amount of money it gave to support the central government.
Representation in congress based on population was mostly like by which kind of states?
The House of Representatives.
The house of congress at which representation is based on congress?
There are two parts of Congress: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Representation in the Senate is independent of population; therefore all states get the same amount of representation (2 Senators per state). Representation in the House of Representatives is dependent on population, which means that there is a different amount of representatives representing each state.
