Social Sciences and History / Unit 8 SSH 0701 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Two Chambers, 435 and 100
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The idea
The Constitution made Congress bicameral: a Senate of two members per state, one hundred today, and a House drawn from each state in proportion to population, capped at four hundred thirty-five since nineteen twenty-nine. Apportionment distributes House seats by the Census.
In practice
The Articles' weakness produced the Convention.
Where people slip
Bicameralism, the key term, is the politics of two assemblies.
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