The legislative branch was the first branch to be described in the constitution and was
written about the most. The main purpose of the Legislative branch is to
Our congress is a Bicameral legislature, meaning it is made up of
and the
two houses known as the
When a
bill is passed by both houses of congress and is sent to the president, if the president signs the
bill, it becomes a
The Virginia Plan for Congress believed that congressional
representation should be based on
while the New Jersey Plan called
for a congress based on
representation for each state. The
Compromise called for a legislature where there are two houses. One
based on population, known as the
one with equal representation for each state (2 per state), known as the
and
