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What are congressional district lines?

a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives


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 part of the great compromise benefits states with a smaller population?

The Great Compromise settled the method of representation in the legislative branch (the US Congress). Small states wanted equal representation (equality by state), and large states wanted representation based on population (equality by vote). Under the compromise, all states were represented equally in the Senate. This made the smaller states happy. In the House of Representatives, representation was based on population. This pleased the bigger states.


The great compromise proposed that a states representation in the house of representatives would be determined by?

This representation would be based upon population.


Representation in the Senate is based on population.?

Representation in the US senate is not based on population. Each state has two senators. The House's representation is based on population.


Representation in congress based on population was mostly like by which kind of states?

The House of Representatives.


What was thought to favor larger states since representation was based on population?

Virginia plan


What was the representation compromise?

The Representation Compromise gave both large states and small states the type of representation they asked for. This was done by changing the representation standards in the houses of Congress. Large states had wanted representation based on population. This standard was accepted in the House of Representatives, which allowed the number of representatives to be determined by state population. Smaller states wanted equal representation, despite population size. This was accepted by the Senate, in which all states have the same number of representatives.


How did the New Jersey plan of representation say representation should be based?

The states were given equil amounts of representation, regardless of the population. That would mean the representation would be based on the individual states, and not the population.the New Jersey plan had 3 branches (legislatiure, Execultive, judiceal)the legislature is a unicameral(one house)it was proposed by William Pattersonthis plan was liked by the small population but rejected by the large population 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.


What kind of legislature did the New Jersey Plan support?

The states were given equil amounts of representation, regardless of the population. That would mean the representation would be based on the individual states, and not the population.