one of the two national legislative bodies in the United States (comprised of 2 delegates from every state)
The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the
bicameral United States Congress, the other being the
House of Representatives. It is known informally as the "upper house."In the Senate, each
state is represented by two members, in accordance with the
New Jersey Plan, proposed by William Paterson reached at the
Philadelphia Convention of 1787. The Senate's membership is therefore based on the equal representation of each state, regardless of population. The nine most populous states, with just over half of the total US population, together elect only eighteen of the hundred senators, while the smallest nine states, with about 2.5% of the total US population, also elect 18 senators. For comparison, a
Wyoming resident's vote is worth about 71
California residents' votes.
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