Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.
Committee charged with finding a suitable method of representation in the lower house of the legislature.
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Report of the Second Committee on Representation created.
That in the first branch of the Legislature each of the States now in the Union be allowed one Member for every forty thousand inhabitants of the description reported in the seventh resolution of the Committee of the whole House. That each State not containing that number shall be allowed one Member