Question 1 • MI-Government/Civics 2023
The Great Compromise combined ideas from the Virginia Plan, which favored representation based on population, and the New Jersey Plan, which favored equal representation for each state. It created a bicameral Congress: representation in the House is based on population, while every state has equal representation in the Senate. Therefore, it combined key elements of the large-state and small-state plans.
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