What is the House of Representatives?

For centuries, the House of Representatives has been part of the branch of government that has represented the will of the people of the United States of America. It was formally established in 1789 as a result of the Great Compromise in 1787, in which two plans were presented in an attempt to create a way to represent the people: the New Jersey plan (proposed by William Patterson) and the Virginia plan (proposed by Edmund Randolph). Finally, both sides agreed on the Great Compromise, which established a two branch legislature called congress with two houses: the House of Representatives and the senate. Each state would be assigned two senators, while the number of representatives would be determined by the state’s population, with the number of representatives changing every ten years based on the census (the official U.S. survey taken every 10 years).