Representation should be determined by population. While the New Jersey plan proposed representation would be equal for all states. :)
The Virginia Plan proposed that both houses of Congress would be based on population.
Virginia was a heavily populated state and New Jersey was not. Virginia proposed congressional representation based upon population; New Jersey proposed equal representation of all states regardless of population.
The Congress under the Virginia plan would have been a unicameral legislature with representation based on a state's population like the House of Representatives that we have today.
The Virginia Plan proposed that both houses of Congress would be based on population.
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.
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Edmund Randolph of Virginia first proposed the idea of a bicameral Congress, or two-house system; during his time, it was called The Connecticut Compromise.
The Senate is not based on population. Each state is represented by 2 Senators.
This representation would be based upon population.
The Connecticut Compromise proposed a bicameral legislature with two senators per state and a House of Representatives based on population.