In 2016, the five smallest states held roughly 0.5 percent of the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 10 percent of the seats in the U.S. Senate. These differing levels of representation of the five small states were the result of which decision during the Constitutional Convention?

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The Great Compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, was a decision made during the Constitutional Convention that created a two-house legislature, with one house (the Senate) having equal representation for each state and the other house (the House of Representatives) having representation based on population. This compromise satisfied both the small states and large states, as it ensured that smaller states would have equal representation in the Senate while larger states would have greater representation in the House. This created the differing levels of representation for the five smallest states, with their small populations giving them only a few seats in the House but significant representation in the Senate.

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