It is outlined in the Constitution of the United States of America that each state gets two Senators. This allows states with less population to have an equal voice in law making.
The number of members in House of Representatives is based on population.
The House of Representatives is based on population, with each state receiving a proportionate number of representatives. The Senate, however, is based on equal representation, with each state being represented by two senators regardless of population.
The How is easy: the House has a fixed number of members (currently, set at 435, though the number has varied over time). After a total population count every 10 years (the Census), these 435 representatives are divided as evenly as possible amongst the states, so that one representative is assigned for approximately equal amounts of people. Currently, the US has about 310 million people. That means, each representative should stand for about 710,000 people. Now, given there are other restrictions on apportionment (no state can have less than 1 representative, etc.), it turns out this isn't strictly equal, but the idea is to get each representative's district as close in size to the others as possible.
As to the Why: the Founding Fathers believed in democracy, the right of the people to decide their own government, and participate in that government. The House of Representatives was their way of allowing ordinary citizens as much as a direct voice as possible, since it was immediately responsible to the citizenry via direct elections.
No each state gets two senators. Congressmen is based on population
It is the house of representatives that is based on total population.
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no, because the house has representatives based on population, and the senate has an equal number of representatives.
no, because the house has representatives based on population, and the senate has an equal number of representatives.
The house of Representatives. There are 435 total. The senate has two representatives from each state.
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The House of Representatives is based on population and the senate is the same for all the states 2 per state.
the house of representatives was based on the population of the state and the senate was 2 representatives per state no matter the population.
The house of representatives ~ APEX
both are part of congress. the senate has two representatives from each state while the house of representatives takes reps from each state based on population
The House of Representatives is based on population and the senate is the same for all the states 2 per state.
The Senate is based on equal representation for all of the states, with two senators for each state. These senators serve staggered six-year terms, which means that they start and end at different items.
The continental congress couldn't decide upon a Senate based on population or an equal Senate with two representatives from each state. A compromise was made and to this day we have a bicameral legislature, the house of representatives ( population based ) and the Senate ( fixed amount of representatives ).
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.