Hvad var det største problem med virginia planen?
Virginia Plan
Virginia-planen foreslog en lovgivende gren bestående af to kamre (tokammerlovgivning) med dobbeltprincippet om rotation og tilbagekaldelse af den nationale lovgivende forsamlings underhus. Hver af staterne skulle være repræsenteret i forhold til deres "Quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants". Stater med en stor befolkning, som f.eks. Virginia (som var den mest folkerige stat på det tidspunkt), ville således have flere repræsentanter end mindre stater. Store stater støttede denne plan, og mindre stater var generelt imod den og foretrak et alternativ, der blev fremsat den 15. juni. New Jersey-planen foreslog en lovgivende forsamling med et enkelt kammer, hvor hver stat, uanset størrelse, ville have én stemme, som under konføderationsartiklerne. I sidste ende enedes konventet om Connecticut-kompromiset, der skaber et Repræsentanternes Hus, der fordeles efter befolkningstal, og et Senat, hvor hver stat er ligeligt repræsenteret.
The Virginia Plan proposed a legislative branch consisting of two chambers (bicameral legislature), with the dual principles of rotation in office and recall applied to the lower house of the national legislature. Each of the states would be represented in proportion to their “Quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants.” States with a large population, like Virginia (which was the most populous state at the time), would thus have more representatives than smaller states. Large states supported this plan, and smaller states generally opposed it, preferring an alternative put forward on June 15. The New Jersey Plan proposed a single-chamber legislature in which each state, regardless of size, would have one vote, as under the Articles of Confederation. In the end, the convention settled on the Connecticut Compromise, creating a House of Representatives apportioned by population and a Senate in which each state is equally represented.
Virginia Plan