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- The Virginia Plan
- The New Jersey Plan
- Connecticut Compromise
- James Madison proposed the Virginia Plan in order to solve the issues having to do with different-sized states and their votes. This plan created a bicameral legislature and 3 branches of the national government that gave representation based on population.
- Three-fifths Compromise
- Senate: 2 per state
- House of Representatives: Based on state population
- This plan was proposed by William Patterson and it created a unicameral legislature that gives one vote to each state.
- Electoral College
- The Connecticut Compromise borrowed from both the Virginia and New Jersey Plans. It created a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives and Senate.
- The Great Compromise
- The 3/5 compromise was an agreement between delegates that allowed for slaves to be counted as 3/5 of a person when determining a state's population.
- Each state has an elected member/members in the electoral college, these members represent each state in matters of voting, like the presidential election.
- A proposal made making legislation bicameral and directly voted in by the people while the House of Reps. is established.
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