> The House + Senate system was setup so that less-populous states would still get a say in federal policies that impacted them I was under the impression tha

> The House + Senate system was setup so that less-populous states would still get a say in federal policies that impacted them I was under the impression that it was a compromise between slave holding and free states. Smaller free states we worried about larger slave states overrunning things with their large enslaved populations. There was a lot of back and forth on this in the convention.