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- Legislative
- of or pertaining to the enactment of laws
- Senate
- an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, esp. a legislative assembly of a state or nation
- Virginia Plan
- a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature
- Equal Representation
- everyone has like or alike in quantity, degree, value of the act of representing
- New Jersey Plan
- a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state
- Compromise
- a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands
- House of Representives/Representation
- the lower legislative branch in many national and state bicameral governing bodies, as in the United States, Mexico, and Japan
- Connecticut Compromise
- a compromise adopted at the Constitutional Convention, providing the states with equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
- Bicameral
- having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body
- Proportional Representation
- a method of voting by which political parties are given legislative representation in proportion to their popular vote