Virginia And New Jersey Plan Case Study

1.Describe the Virginia and New Jersey Plans for Government and explain how the Connecticut Compromise (Great Compromise) solved the problem and allowed the Constitution to be agreed upon.

The Virginia plan was a plan for how the national government should be run, and as Virginia was a large state it naturally favored the larger states than the smaller states. The Virginia plan called for a strong national government that was composed of three branches: the legislative, which was split into two houses, number of representatives based on state population, and had the power to select the executive and judiciary branches. The New Jersey plan favored smaller states and would have the government be composed of a one-house legislature with one vote for each state, regardless of population, and giving Congress the power to raise revenue from imports and postal service fees. The judicial branch would be headed by a

This compromise would have the government be made of a two-house legislature. There would be a House of Representatives, which is based population and elected by the people, and a Senate in which representation would equal for each state who were elected by state legislatures. The house would have the power to make all bills for spending and raising money. This compromise eventually had the approval by all of the states in attendance with its balance between the larger states in the House and the smaller states in the Senate.

2. What is the significance of the Articles of Confederation?

The Articles of Confederation are significant because they were our first attempt at setting up a national government in the United States. They are also significant because they show how having too weak of a national government would cause many problems if all of the states were not united by a common goal.

3. What were the primary weaknesses of the Articles of