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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.
What group of states favored a Congress based on equal representation?
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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.
Representation in congress based on population was mostly like by which kind of states?
The House of Representatives.
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.
What plans proposed that representation in Congress be based on equality for all states?
new jersey plan
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. :)
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.
Why did small states want representation by state?
Large states wanted to base representation in Congress on population. Smaller states supported the New Jersey Plan, which would have allowed each state to have an equal vote.
Describe how did the debate over representation lead to the creation of congress?
The debate over representation during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 arose from differing views between large and small states regarding legislative power. Large states favored representation based on population, while small states sought equal representation for each state. This disagreement led to the Great Compromise, which established a bicameral Congress: the House of Representatives based on population and the Senate with equal representation for all states. This structure aimed to balance the interests of both large and small states, ultimately facilitating the formation of Congress.
How did small states want to base representation in Congress?
Small states wanted representation in Congress to be equal for all states regardless of their size or population, because they felt each state was an equal partner in the new nation and feared that they would be outvoted in Congress by larger states if representation were based on population alone. The legislature would consist of two house : a House of Representatives, with membership based based on state population, and a Senate, with each state receiving two members. This agreement became known as the Connecticut Compromise.
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.
