True.
The Virginia plan! It said that representation in Congress would be based on population.
The compromise offered a bicameral legislature with equal representation in the Senate and representation based on population in the House of Representatives- giving shared power to both large and small states in the new government.
In the Constitutional Convention there was a dispute between the New Jersey Plan (equal representation despite population) and Virginia Plan (representation based on population). In response, Sherman and Johnson created the Connecticut Compromise (or Great Compromise) in which there would be a Senate (2 reps per state) and a House of Representatives (representatives based on population).
delegates at the constitutional convention of 1787 agreed to the three-fiths compromise as a way slaves were counted in determining a state's congressional delegation.
Representation, population!
The Great Compromise
By making representation in the House of Representatives proportionate to population and representation in the Senate equal for each state
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 Great Compromise settled the dispute of state representation in the U.S. Congress. It was decided that representation in the U.S. House of Representatives would be proportional to population, while representation in the U.S. Senate would be equal among all states.
The solution to the problem of representation at the convention was the creation of the Great Compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise. This compromise established a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives based on population size and a Senate with equal representation for each state.
The population of Keswick Convention is 8.
True.
The Virginia plan! It said that representation in Congress would be based on population.
Small states did not like the idea of 2 houses with representation Based on the population or the wealth, on the other hand larger states did.Small states would have less representativesSmall states had less population than larger states.
Small states did not like the idea of 2 houses with representation Based on the population or the wealth, on the other hand larger states did.Small states would have less representativesSmall states had less population than larger states.
The plan that based representation in the U.S. Congress on population was the Virginia Plan, also called the Large State Plan. It was written by James Madison and proposed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.