<Ul> <Li> G. Morris, PA provinces forever </Li> </Ul> <Li> G. Morris, PA provinces forever </Li> <P> While the English "virtual representation" was hardening into a theory of Parliamentary sovereignty, the American theory of representation was moving towards a theory of sovereignty of the people . In their new constitutions written since 1776, Americans required community residency of voters and representatives, expanded suffrage, and equalized populations in voting districts . There was a sense that representation "had to be proportioned to the population ." The Convention would apply the new principle of "sovereignty of the people" both to the House of Representatives, and to the United States Senate . </P> <P> Once the Great Compromise was reached, delegates in Convention then agreed to a decennial census to count the population . The Americans themselves did not allow for universal suffrage for all adults . Their sort of "virtual representation" said that those voting in a community could understand and themselves represent non-voters when they had like interests that were unlike other political communities . There were enough differences among people in different American communities for those differences to have a meaningful social and economic reality . Thus New England colonial legislatures would not tax communities which had not yet elected representatives . When the royal governor of Georgia refused to allow representation to be seated from four new counties, the legislature refused to tax them . </P>

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