- One hundred (100)
There are 100 senators in Congress, two from each state. All states have equal power in the Senate because each state has the same number of senators.
States with a very small population have the same number of senators as states with very large populations.
The Framers of the Constitution made sure that the Senate would be small. This would keep it more orderly than the larger House of Representatives.
As James Madison wrote in Federalist Paper #63, the Senate should be a “temperate and respectable body of citizens” that operates in a “cool and deliberate” way.
** As you prepare for U.S. citizenship, Learn About the United States: Quick Civics Lessons will help you study for the civics and English portions of the naturalization interview. There are 100 civics (history and government) questions on the naturalization test. During your naturalization interview, you will be asked up to 10 questions from the list of 100 questions. You must answer correctly six (6) of the 10 questions to pass the civics test.