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What Under the articles of confederation small states like Rhode Island wielded as much power as large states like Virginia because?
Each state had one vote in Congress, which gave each state equal power.
What of the houses of congress is based on each state getting representatives based on their population?
The House of Representatives is the part of the United States Congress that's size is determined based on the population of the state.
How did the articles of confederation ensures the power of the states?
within congress, all states would be equal and each had a single vote.
How did articles of confederation ensure the power of the states?
within congress, all states would be equal and each had a single vote.
What is the function of the legislative government?
The legislative government is the congress. They make laws. You have the congress(2 Representatives from each state) and the house of reprenstives (based on the states population.)
Who has membership based on equality in US congress?
The United States Senate has equal membership from each state. The Senate is comprised of two Senators from each of the fifty states.
Each state's power in the congress of the confederation was based on?
One vote per state, regardless of population.
What argument did the large and small states have at the constitutional convention amd how was it resolved?
Their debate was on how each State would be represented in the Congress. Large states wanted to have the Number of representatives based upon the Population and the small states wanted it to be equal number for each state. The answer was to have a Congress made up of 2 Houses: (A) House of Representativves based upon a State's population and (B) Congress which has equal senators elected from each state.
Under the Articles of Confederation small states like Rhode Island wielded as much power as large states like Virginia because .?
Each state had one vote in Congress, which gave each state equal power.
Is each state given its power by the congress?
No, the state's rights deal are granted by the US Constitution. There are some rights of the Congress that they coul delegate to the states if they wished. Article I
How did the great compromise solve the problem of the representation in congress?
It solved the problem of representation in congress because the house of representatives was based on proportional representation (# of representatives based on population) which made the larger states happy and the Senate was based on equal representation (each state got two representatives) which made the small states happy. So each state was represented.
Why are there 100 senator in each state?
There are 100 senators in Congress. Two senators for each state in the United States of America. So there are 50 states, each has two senators, so in there are 100 senators all together in Congress in the United States.
