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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.

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first, the small states proposed a Congress that was unicameral -(having one house) , with each state having the same number of representatives or votes.

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Q: How did the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan each propose to structure the new national legislature?
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