Chapter 2 : The Constitution

In the “Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan” both plans called for a strong national government with 3 branches which led to the Great Compromise. The Great Compromise provided for a bicameral congress. The bicameral structure wanted to accommodate both large and small states unlike the unicameral which only included the small vote.

Delegates have different views regarding the government failure to scrap of the Articles of Confederation and mark a new begining. The plans under development included the Virginia Plan that favoured large states and the New Jersey plan remedying small states. The Great Compromise was to benefit the small and large states together. Each of the plans would influence modern forms of the American legislature. To begin with, the focus on Madison’s original idea that led to the formation of Virginia Plan was an inclusive measure for active governments. The plan sought to respond to the ineffectiveness of the Articles of Confederation. Articles of Confederation awarded plenty of power to the states instead of the national government (Vile 45).

The Great Compromise of 1787 results in the United States government agreeing for the Senate to be represented by two officials per state while the House of Representatives is to have a number of representatives based on the population of each state. There are two sides to the debate: The Virginia Plan and The New Jersey Plan. Each plan only benefits one side or the other because both sides have a different concept of equal power. One wants equal delineation for all while the other wants apportionment. The biggest obstacle between the two sides is the disagreement over the balance of power between states.

The Great Compromise of 1787 settled the debate on representation resulting in the government agreeing to have the Senate equally represented by two officials for each state and the House of Representatives was characterized based on the population of each state. There were two sides to the debate: The Virginia Plan and The New Jersey Plan. Each Plan only benefitted one side or the other because both sides had a different portrayal of equal power. One wanted equal delineation for all, while the other wanted apportionment. The biggest obstacle was attempting to balance the power between the small and large states. The road to a balance of power was long and tedious. Despite the differences in opinions on how power should be divided, they did

The Connecticut Plan, also known as the Connecticut Compromise was a merger of the Virginia and the New Jersey Plans. The original Virginia plan wanted representation based on it’s state population and the New Jersey plan wanted an equal number of representatives for all the states. During the Constitutional Convention in 1787 an agreement was reached between the larger and smaller states and it was decided that each state should have fair and equal representation and voting rights. The agreement also laid out the plan for the structure of the representation of each state. This agreement became known as the Great Compromise and a Bi-cameral legislature was formed and divided into the House of Representatives and the Senate. It was decided

The Great Compromise of 1787 was also known as the Connecticut Compromise of the Sherman Compromise. It was proposed by Roger Sherman. The Great Compromise was an agreement between large states and small states that guaranteed them 2 representatives in the upper house and equal power in legislative structure. This agreement helped make sure that all legislative branches had the same amount of power and control. This plan helped balance out and separate the power between all

The Great Compromise was an agreement between large and small states that representation in the senate would be equal for each state as small states preferred, and representation in the House would be based on population, as large states preferred. After much debate the Great Compromise was put into place in which they both the Senate and the House received what they wanted. Although the delegates were not completely satisfied the great compromise prevented either group of states from dominating the new system of government. This was of great importance because it was able to define the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States

Madison’s national veto also weakened the Virginia Plan, since the national government’s supreme judgment could only cause resentment by local authorities grappling with purely local issues. To counteract Madison’s bold proposal, delegates from the smaller states, headed by New Jersey’s William Paterson, offered a competing plan, the New Jersey Plan. To its credit, the New Jersey Plan amended the Articles of Confederation by adding a plural executive and a judiciary appointed by the executive branch. The New Jersey Plan proposed proportional representation in both houses of Congress to protect the smaller states. Although the addition of an executive would have strengthened the existing confederation, it resulted in a weak plural head of state. Furthermore, since the New Jersey Plan merely amended the Articles, and since the Articles had never been amended given the necessity of a unanimous vote by all of the states, the Plan was almost certainly doomed to

To begin with, The Great Compromise of 1787. Overall it was an agreement between the large and small states during the 1787 constitutional convention. Large states wanted the Virginia plan while small states wanted the New Jersey plan. The Virginia Plan called for a bicameral legislature, which meant that the number of representatives in each house would depend on the population of the state. However, the New Jersey Plan called for a unicameral legislature, meaning each state would receive one vote. There was only one thing each agreed with, both called for a strong national government with 3 branches. Small states

2. The colonists believed in a higher law of natural rights which included life, liberty, and property (Thomas Jefferson listed these rights in the Declaration of Independence but he changed 'property' to 'the pursuit of happiness')

Congress was the initial choice of most of the framers, but then they realized they first dilemma; by having congress elect the president, he would be loyal only to congress and not the people. The second and most logically thought was to have the people elect the president. However,

`Great Compromise is first and the key compromise in united states constitution, which was facing a major issue like state represented by congress for two plans. There were two plans get together name also Connecticut compromise as well as those plans made legislative branch that bicameral two-house representative which each state representative of proportion in the state’s population and size. For example, large population has more representative small has less represented. One plan was the Virginia plan which represented by population and another one was the New Jersey plan which was made equal

They aimed to create a government that would represent as an honest broker. According to the text, freedom of property would result in liberty for all people. This was not the case here. Most people during this stage in time were property owning males. That being woman or other person’s that didn’t own land. With property, liberty and democracy flourished. If you did not own land, you weren’t considered apart of society. Liberty and democracy are the principles of what the founding fathers had attempted to bring forward in the source of the idea of the United States. What they never had encountered was the problems that people faced in society, America is a utopian ideal. It seems to accept anyone on any terms, but that is where it is flawed. The founders wanting a balanced government was just close to the only decent forward to the

Many people say compromise is fair. Others say it isn’t but, is compromise always fair? Compromise isn’t always fair but most of the time it is. Compromise was needed in the past to form a strong government which we have now. The Articles of Confederation helped determine representation in Congress. The New Jersey and Virginia plans helped build our government and the Connecticut Plans facilitated compromise.