The framers made a compromise so that one house in the legislature would give all states an equal vote while the other house would be determined by the population of a state. It is called the Great Compromise of 1787.
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The Virginia Plan proposed that the new legislature have representation based on a states population. The New Jersey Plan proposed that the new legislature let each state have the same number of representatives.
first, the small states proposed a Congress that was unicameral -(having one house) , with each state having the same number of representatives or votes.
William Paterson's plan was called the New Jersey or Paterson plan and it countered the Virginia plan and it proposed a national legislature that, ignoring differences in size and population, gave equal voice to all the states.
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