Social Sciences and History / Unit 7 SSH 0609 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Virginia, New Jersey, and the Great Compromise
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The idea
Delegates met in Philadelphia in seventeen eighty-seven. The Virginia Plan proposed two houses, the lower elected by population and choosing the upper; the New Jersey Plan one house with one vote per state. The Great Compromise made a House apportioned by population and a Senate of equal states.
In practice
A republic, not a confederation.
Where people slip
Bicameral means two houses; unicameral, one.
Your place on the trail
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