Question

Summarize how the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan resulted in the Connecticut Compromise and describe the concept of a bicameral legislature.

Answer 1

The Virginia Plan was used, but some ideas from the New Jersey Plan were added. The Connecticut Compromise established a bicameral legislature with the U.S. House of Representatives apportioned by population as desired by the Virginia Plan and the Senate granted equal votes per state as desired by the New Jersey Plan.

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Answer 2

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.

The Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan resulted in the Connecticut Compromise because of the following reasons.

The New Jersey Plan came from the mind of William Patterson, a delegate from New Jersey who introduced his idea during the Constitutional Convention in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The plan basically proposed the amendment of teh Articles of Confederation, a Congress that could collect money through taxation and name an executive to rule the nation. Congress would have just one chamber.

The Virginia plan was proposed by James Madison and included a federal system divided into three branches: an executive, a judicial, and a legislative branch, but divided into tho chambers: upper and lower.

The Connecticut plan agreed with what was stated in the Virginia Plan but defined a proportional representation of legislators according to the population in each state.

The concept of a bicameral legislature was accepted and it consisted in an upper chamber or Senate. Each state would have the same number of Senators. The lower chamber was the House of Representatives, the compromise was that each and would have one legislator for every 40,000 inhabitants.