The Virginia Plan proposed by James Madison called for a stronger federal government with three branches and replacing state sovereignty. It was debated for weeks, with Madison making compromises. The New Jersey Plan opposed the Virginia Plan and favored keeping state representation equal. It proposed Congress elect executives and set naturalization standards. The Great Compromise combined aspects of both plans, with a bicameral legislature - one house based on population and the other with equal state votes. This and the Three-Fifths Compromise helped prevent rebellion and lead to a new Constitution.
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The Virginia Plan proposed by James Madison called for a stronger federal government with three branches and replacing state sovereignty. It was debated for weeks, with Madison making compromises. The New Jersey Plan opposed the Virginia Plan and favored keeping state representation equal. It proposed Congress elect executives and set naturalization standards. The Great Compromise combined aspects of both plans, with a bicameral legislature - one house based on population and the other with equal state votes. This and the Three-Fifths Compromise helped prevent rebellion and lead to a new Constitution.
The Virginia Plan proposed by James Madison called for a stronger federal government with three branches and replacing state sovereignty. It was debated for weeks, with Madison making compromises. The New Jersey Plan opposed the Virginia Plan and favored keeping state representation equal. It proposed Congress elect executives and set naturalization standards. The Great Compromise combined aspects of both plans, with a bicameral legislature - one house based on population and the other with equal state votes. This and the Three-Fifths Compromise helped prevent rebellion and lead to a new Constitution.
James Madison wrote the Virginia Plan and brought it to the
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 5, 1787. He before George Washington who was fond of his ideas and supported his new way of thinking. He claimed that loose states that were a part of the confederation were going to collapse break the promise of an American liberty, independence, and revolutionary nation was going diminish. His radical agenda assured a General Government with Virginian delegates. He issued a fifteen- point plan to constitutional congress depicting state government failures such as upholding economic discipline in the legislature to repay debts from during and after the war and nonexistence clear foreign policy. Madison also suggested the full power of central government entailing three divisions of executive, legislative, and judicial branches. In result, it started an extensive replacement of sovereignty in states with the national government. Congress discussed Madisons policies for several weeks. Which forced him to make multiple compromises, however, they were rejected state-based Senate and population-based House. Madisons persuasive and significant moment embodiment of the terms us or We the people made the federal government. Ellis, J. J. (2010). Madison's Radical Agenda. American Heritage, 59(4), 39-40. The New Jersey Plan The New Jersey plan or also known as the Small State plan was written by William Paterson and brought to the Federal Convention on June 15, 1787. Williams plan was created to oppose the Virginian plan, Jersey plan illustrated less popular states to keep one-vote-per-state representation under a singular legislative group of the Articles of Confederations. The smaller states were to benefit from these strategies believing states were independent entities that should remain freely and individual. The plan further stated that congress authority to collect taxes from each state was based on their number of free inhabitants and 3/5ths of slaves. Congress would be the one to elect federal executives, A singular of policy for naturalization would be established. However, not all The New Jersey Plan was accepted by congress as a new basis for a new constitution but some ideas from the New Jersey and Virginia plans were added in the constitution.
Papers of William Paterson on the Federal Convention, 1787.
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Connecticut/Great Compromise
The Connecticut compromise also known as the Great
compromise of 1787 was developed by Roger Sherman and delivered on July 5 of that year. Meetings were being held in key states such as Massachusetts and North Carolina, after weeks of deliberation between the Virginia and New Jersey plans. Its agreement consist of upper state houses should have equal votes to lower state houses. Each state has one representative every 40,000 inhabitants counting the 3/5 th of slaves of an inhabitant. After extensive discussions, Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth both a Connecticut delegations with congress reached an agreement and called it the Great Compromise they combined parts if the Virginia a large state and New Jersey small state advocates. Two house national Legislature with one house for the people and second for senate and each state gets one vote. Precisely the Great Compromise was based on the preventing rebellions and destruction of the Americas and the Three-Fifths Compromise on slavery. Those compromises were also created in isolated proceedings; the outcome of negotiations lead to temperance of representative levels of power.
Pope, J. C., & Treier, S. (2011). Reconsidering the Great Compromise at
the Federal Convention of 1787: Deliberation and Agenda Effects on the Senate and Slavery. American Journal Of Political Science, 55(2), 289-306. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00490.x