MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE GREAT COMPROMISE
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Question
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Under Virginia’s plan for the new government ____
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Ben Franklin gets unlimited control over the AC
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states with bigger populations would get more representation in the government
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each state would get representation in the government
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states with smaller populations would get representation in the government
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The plan called for a legislature divided into two bodies (the Senate and the House of Representatives) with proportional representation. That is, each state’s representation in Congress would be based on its population.
Detailed explanation-2: -Another feature of this proposal was a bicameral legislature, in which representation would be proportional to a state’s population. Larger states favored this element of the plan.
Detailed explanation-3: -This would provide large states, like Virginia, more representation than they had under the Articles of Confederation, which gave each state equal representation regardless of population. For this reason, the plan was called the “large-state plan".
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