those lower houses of the legislature that you get people like patrick henry and james otis and john adamson, samuel adams to came out and attacked what they thought were innovations in british policy that were pressing the colonists. and if you recall, no taxation without representation, but it does relieve those delegates that were on the forefront of observing that. they were elected within each column. virginia legislature, 67 legislature, new hampshire had a legislature. these lower houses had delegates that were elected from towns and counties. there was no sense that more people should have more representatives. it was all done on the basis of geographic units and territorial units. one county from represent to five. county from virginia would have two representatives. what happens when the state's wrote their first pick constitutions, and they did that during the american revolution from 1776 to 1780 cell of the states began to experiment with a new form of representation in which representation was proportionate to population more people would get representatives, and that is the in