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The New Jersey Plan was a proposal to have representation in Congress be equal for every state. In the Virginia Plan, representation was determined by population.
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.
Each state should decide how many members it would send to Congress.
In the Virginia plan they wanted it based on population because they were a bigger state. But in the New Jersey plan they wanted an equal representation because they had a smaller population.
The plan that called for equal representation in Congress is known as the New Jersey Plan. Proposed during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the New Jersey Plan advocated for a unicameral legislature in which each state would have equal representation, regardless of size or population. This was in contrast to the Virginia Plan, which proposed a bicameral legislature with representation based on population. Ultimately, the compromise reached was the Great Compromise, which created a bicameral legislature with the House of Representatives based on population and the Senate with equal representation for each state.
Representation should be determined by population. While the New Jersey plan proposed representation would be equal for all states. :)
The big state plan, or the Virginia plan called for states to be represented based on population, because Virginia as a state with a large population would consequently gain considerable influence under their own plan.
The plan that based representation in the U.S. Congress on population was the Virginia Plan, also called the Large State Plan. It was written by James Madison and proposed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
The Virginia plan was an idea proposed for the decision on the amount of representation for each state in Congress. The Virginia Plan suggested that representation should be determined by population and size of the state. That plan was not passed because it clearly did not favor smaller states who would end up with very little representation in the government. The New Jersey Plan was a completely contradicting plan that suggested that representation should be equal no matter what the size or population of the state was. That plan was not passed either because it only favored smaller states and politicians from the bigger states believed they needed more representation because of their size.
Type your answer here.Which plan called for two houses in the legislature, one where states would have equal representation and one where representation would be in proportion to population..
The Great Compromise combined the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan. The New Jersey Plan wanted governmental representation independent on population, therefore the representation would be the same for every state. The Virginia Plan wanted representation to be based on population, therefore some states would have more representation than others. The Great Compromise combined the two, and created the Congress we have today. The Senate is independent of population, and the House of Representatives is based on population.