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Direct linkPotter, Lee Ann – Social Education, 2006
During the summer of 1787, when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia, the issue of representation in Congress was strongly debated. Delegates from the large states favored the Virginia Plan's proposal for two houses of Congress with representation based on population. Delegates from the small states favored equal…
Descriptors: United States History, Power Structure, Federal Government, Legislators
