The Virginia Plan proposed that both houses of Congress would be based on population.
The Virginia Plan proposed that both houses of Congress would be based on population.
The Senate is not based on population. Each state is represented by 2 Senators.
Virginia Plan
The House of Representatives is the part of the United States Congress that's size is determined based on the population of the state.
both houses of congress were based on population :J
there were 2 proposed plans that dealt with representing the population in congress. the virginia plan proposed deciding the number of reps by population of the state. the new jersey plan proposed having 1 representative per state. the great compromise created 2 houses of congress: the senate and the house of representatives. the senate was to have 2 reps per state. the house was to have its reps based on the population of each state.
Virginia Plan
The Virginia Plan. At the Philadelphia Convention, Madison was originally going to call for amending the Articles of Confederation to have a stronger central government in order to prevent bankruptcy and disunion, but he eventually realized that a totally new Constitution was necessary. He the advanced his plan, The Virginia Plan, as an outline for the new Constitution which included the 2 houses of Congress based on population.
Representation should be determined by population. While the New Jersey plan proposed representation would be equal for all states. :)
The legislative branch was split into two houses of congress. The more powerful of the houses is the senate with 2 representatives from each state and the other is the house of representatives which is based on 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.