In the US, the House of Representatives are elected by the voters in their respective states. The number of Representatives a state may have is based on population. Some states have such a low level of population, they have only one member in the House of Representatives. As a consequence of the US Constitution, some low population states have two senators and one House member. This is quite unusual, and normally the reverse is true.
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members of the house of representatives are apportioned among the states according to their populations in the federal census.
A member of the House of Representatives
This is a bad question because it implies a change took place. In fact, the way House of Representatives legislatures were chosen has always been the same: "House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States." Article I, Section II
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The North Carolina General Assembly with a 50 member Senate and a 120 member House of Representatives.
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