yes, it was! one vote per state would not represent the people, and would cause the new government of states joined together during the Revoulutionary War to break away from each other. New York was a highly poulated state filled with people seeking their freedoms, and the entire state would be represented by only one vote!
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Both state legislatures must agree to form the new state and Congress must approve and vote to admit the new "state" to the union. See Article IV, Section 3 of the US Constitution.
Each state having an equal vote. It was focused on insuring that small states got an equal share of representation in the government. In the final compromise, the New Jersey Plan served as the model for the current US Senate, every state has the same representation, regardless of size and population.
About half of the adult males in France were these "active" citizens.