George Washington
George Washington
The Great Compromise
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 two house legislature was proposed by the Great Compromise/Connecicut Compromise. The Plan that recommended representation be determined by population was Virginia Plan, because they had a very large population, so a legislature based on population would give Virginia a lot of influence in the new nation.
Connecticut compromise
The Great Compromise
Virginian plan
The Connecticut Compromise proposed a bicameral legislature with two senators per state and a House of Representatives based on population.
Virginia Plan
The Virginia Plan proposed a bicameral legislature with representation based on population in the lower house. This plan was put forward by the delegates from Virginia at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
The compromise provided for a bicameral federal legislature that used a dual system of representation: the upper house would have equal representation from each state, while the lower house would have proportional representation based on a state's population.