The Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan had many similarities and distinct differences. The New Jersey Plan wanted the Legislative Branch to consist of one house with equal representation from all states. It also stated that the Legislative Branch could collect taxes from the states. The Virginia Plan included details about a powerful Legislative Branch. There would be two houses with membership proportional to the state’s population. The Lower house would be elected by the people, but the Upper house would be elected by the Lower house. The New Jersey Plan explained that the Executive Branch would be chosen by Congress, and the elected individuals would only serve a single term. Some people were subject to recall on request of state governors.
In 1978, two plans were put forth regarding how each state in the union would be represented in the national legislature. The two plans put forth were the, “Virginia Plan” (which favored big states), and the “New Jersey Plan.” (which favored small states) Edmund Randolph of Virginia proposed the Virginia plan. The plan laid out a system in which states would be represented in the national legislature based on their population and/or by how much revenue they contributed to the national government.
The three branches would write, enforce, and judge the laws. This part of the New Jersey Plan is the same as the Virginia Plan, except that this plan would have a one house congress. The smaller states liked the idea of a three branch government, but would make
A little over a decade after having declared their independence from Great Britain and working together to agree on a rudimentary constitution, the thirteen American colonies found themselves divided on a new issue. Governed by the Articles of Confederation, it soon became evident to all the sovereign states that this doctrine was inadequate, thus the provinces of the east coast convened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was the stage for the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where James Madison, William Paterson, and Roger Sherman all argued three of the most crucial proposals that served as aggregates to the United States Constitution. These proposals were known as The Virginia Plan, The New Jersey Plan, and the resulting Connecticut Compromise. Although the convention was originally intended to amend parts of the Articles of
The delegates in the smaller states wanted their plan to amend the Articles of Confederation and deter the larger states from controlling the government on a national level (Library of Virginia, n.d.). The New Jersey Plan would serve to make the federal government stronger, and it recommended each state have the right to equal representation. It further stated that the legislature should have two houses with different rules which applied to responsibilities and the amount of time a member could serve for each term (Schultz,
Despite the Union’s win, several problems still remained and reconstruction of the country was needed. The nation needed a plan to reunite and satisfy the needs of the United States. This lead to the creation of Lincoln’s Plan, Congress’ Plan, and Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plans. Lincoln’s Plan, also known as the Ten Percent Plan, included a ten-percent vote from each state’s voting population for allegiance to the North in order to form a state government, slavery-free state constitution, and reentrance to the Union.
William Patterson presented this plan on June 15, 1787. They felt this plan was necessary because with the Virginia Plan, the larger states would control the government since they had a greater amount of representatives versus the smaller states, therefore giving them more power. One part of the New Jersey Plan was that there would be three branches of government. The three branches were the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Now that a basic understanding of the plans has been reached, the topic of which plan was used can be discussed. Of the three plans the Radical Republican’s plan was the correct option, because it had the support of Congress, it focused on the Freedmen, and gave the country the chance to
In chapter two, American Government, may delegates were worried that their interests wouldn’t matter as much as larger states. The New Jersey Plan was created and they proposed for a unicameral legislative. Neither side one and was fair
The plan proposed by Virginia otherwise known as the “large-state plan.” Which proposed “a bicameral legislature, in which the lower house would be elected proportionately and the upper house would be selected from a list of nominees sent from the state legislatures on the basis of equal representation for the states. ”(add footnote) As the smaller states feared that this plan would lose a voice in the federal government if they continued with the Virginia plan, they opposed this plan and came up with one for themselves which would be known as the “small-state plan.” The small-state plan would propose “a unicameral Congress, with equal representation for each state, with all the powers of the Confederation Congress.
The Congressional plan was created by the “Radical Republicans” which despised slavery and wanted to make the South pay for what they had done to the African Americans and their country. The Radical Republicans hated Lincoln for being a pushover, for not punishing the South. They also loathed Andrew Johnson. They thought he was the worst president of all time. The detested Lincoln and Johnson, so they rejected both of their plans.
Both of the plans called for different branches of government to be formed, but there were many differences between them as well. The New Jersey Plan
Obviously, smaller states were not pleased with that plan. They thought that larger states could easily overrule them in congress. So William Paterson created a plan called the New Jersey Plan. It as well had the same three branches but, the plan provided legislators to have only one house. Each state would only one vote in the legislator, regardless of the population.
Johnson’s plan consisted of amnesty for for all except former military and civil officers of the confederacy and anyone who owned twenty thousand dollars worth of land, all confederate states had to give up the right to secede from the union, abolish slavery, and repudiate any confederate war debts. Lincoln’s plan was to give amnesty to all areas occupied by union armies, a pardon to all except high ranking confederate official, ratify the thirteenth amendment, and that ten percent of a confederate states population had to swear loyalty to the union. Finally, Congress’ plan for reconstruction was that fifty percent of the population had to swear loyalty to the union, only non-confederates could vote for the new state constitution, the Freedman’s Bureau would be instated, The south would be split into five military zones, and the thirteenth amendment had to be ratified.
The three main colonies that we hear about are Virginia, Plymouth, and Massachusetts. These three colonies basically define all the others, as each group and its main founder either went for a personal financial gain or to escape religious persecution. Virginia was originally settled by Captain John Smith and grew into a successful trade colony through tobacco. Plymouth was originally founded by the Separatists and was lead by William Bradford. Eventually the dwindling Plymouth joined with Massachusetts which was originally Puritan based.
The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan were reconciled by using both ideas in which the lower house of the legislature was represented by the basis of population, and the upper house would be equally