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.
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.
The House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives is based on population and is proportional.
In the House, it was based on Population of Citizens as established by the Constitution.
The House of Representatives.
The Great Compromise :D
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.
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.
The three parts of Congress are actually the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Supreme Court is part of the judicial branch, not Congress. The House of Representatives is based on proportional representation, with each state being allocated a certain number of seats based on their population. The Senate, on the other hand, provides equal representation to each state, with two senators per state.
House of reps
House of Representatives
representation in the House of Representatives is based upon official population census counts