MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE GREAT COMPROMISE
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Ohio Plan
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New Jersey Plan
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Virginia Plan
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Iowa Plan
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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. The plan called for a legislature divided into two bodies (the Senate and the House of Representatives) with proportional representation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Who Supported the Virginia Plan? The Virginia Plan was supported by the larger states because of the resolution for proportional representation. This meant that the more people a state has, the more representatives it gets in the legislature.
Detailed explanation-3: -It describes two houses: one with members elected by the people for three-year terms and the other composed of older leaders elected by the state legislatures for seven-year terms. Both would use population as a basis for dividing seats among the states.
Detailed explanation-4: -The plan called for a bicameral (two-branch) legislature with the number of representatives for each state to be determined by the state’s population.