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At the Constitutional Convention, there was a major debate between large states and small states about representation in the new Congress. This debate was resolved by the Connecticut Compromise, which said that:

  1. the number of citizens in a state would determine how many seats that state had in Congress, but slaves and other noncitizens would not be counted for this purpose
  2. Congress would have two houses in which the number of seats a state had in each house was based on its population
  3. Congress would have two houses, one in which state representation was based on population and one in which all states had equal representation
  4. Congress would be made up of two houses in which all states had an equal number of representatives in each house
Explanation

Answer: C - Congress would have two houses, one in which state representation was based on population and one in which all states had equal representation.

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