AnswerSmaller smaller states because they have less population.
Generally southern states who with lower populations would have fewer representatives in government if the only method was direct representation based on population.
But obviously states like Rhode Island and Delaware would have a stake in this question too.
The most contentious issues of the time in the late 18th century were clearly very geographical in nature, and even the two per state Senate was not enough to assure the soon to be Confederate States that their interests would likely prevail even in their own states and probably not in the new western territories.
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