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- The New Jersey Plan
- The New Jersey Plan advocated for a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states, a federal executive group, and to keep the power in the hands of states by revising the Articles of Confederation.
- The compromise provided for a bicameral federal legislature that used a dual system of representation:the upper house would have equal representation from each state, while the lower house would have proportional representation based on a state's population.
- The Connecticut Plan
- James Madison's Virginia Plan outlined a strong national government with three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The plan called for a legislature divided into two bodies (the Senate and the House of Representatives) with proportional representation based on population
- The Virginia Plan
- Each state will only get one vote in congress to keep the balance
- This compromise took aspects from both the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia plan so everyone gets what they want
- The Virginia plan is a more fair way of awarding representation for the states
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