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Virginia Plan, along with the New Jersey Plan, one of two major proposals for the framework of the United States government presented at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. It was known as the Virginia Plan because it was presented to the convention by delegates of the state of.
Drafted by James Madison, and presented by Edmund Randolph to the Constitutional Convention on May 29, 1787, the Virginia Plan proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan or the Large-State Plan) was a proposed plan of government for the United States presented at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The plan called for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature.The plan was drafted by James Madison and Edmund Randolph. [1] [2]
The Virginia Plan was a proposal drafted by James Madison and discussed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The plan called for a bicameral (two-branch) legislature with the number of representatives for each state to be determined by the state's population.
The Virginia Plan. Introduced to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, James Madison’s Virginia Plan outlined a strong national government with three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
Edmund Randolph introduced the Virginia Plan as an answer to five specific defects of the Articles of Confederation that he enumerated near the beginning of his speech: 1) that it provided “no security against foreign invasion;” 2) did not empower Congress to resolve disputes between states; 3) did not empower Congress to enact beneficial commer...
the Virginia Plan. It was presented to the Convention on May 29, 1787. Also of interest are Charles Pinckney’s Plan, the New Jersey Plan, and the British Plan. The following text was taken from the Avalon Project’s reproduction of Madison’s notes from the convention. The text is largely unaltered as
VIRGINIA PLAN. At the constitutional convention of 1787, edmund randolph, arguing that the government of the union under the articles of confederation could not defend itself against state encroachments, introduced the alternative of a "national plan," probably the work of james madison.
The Federal Convention plunged into its momentous assignment without great delay chiefly because a prepared outline for a new government was ready for the delegates’ consideration—the so-called Virginia Plan.
This is the opening page of James Madison's Virginia Plan, which called for the creation of a national republic with a strong central government. This plan was presented to the Constitutional Convention on May 29, 1787, by Edmund Randolph, who was then governor of Virginia.