US CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Introduced to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, James Madison’s Virginia Plan outlined a strong national government with three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.

Detailed explanation-2: -The framers believed that this separation of powers would ensure that no one person or group of persons would be able to create, administer and enforce the laws at the same time and thereby become too powerful. Each branch would be a check on the power of the other two branches.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Virginia Plan, drafted by James Madison and introduced to the Convention by Edmund Randolph on May 29, 1787, proposed the creation of a bicameral national legislature, or a legislature consisting of two houses, in which the “rights of suffrage” in both houses would be proportional to the size of the state.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Virginia Plan went through various revisions and amendments before it was finalized and adopted at the Convention. Id. The later amended version consisted of a bicameral legislature with members of one branch elected by the people, and members of the second branch elected by the individual state legislatures.

Detailed explanation-5: -In a speech on 18 June, Alexander Hamilton proposed a very powerful national government. Hamilton, who said his proposal was not a plan, essentially believed that both the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan were inadequate, particularly the latter.