Virginia and New Jersey plans, and the Great Compromise

==The Virginia Plan==

• Called for a bicameral legislature, in which the number of representatives in each house would depend on the population of the state.

==The New Jersey Plan==

• It called for a unicameral legislature, in which every state received one vote.

==What did they have in common?==

• Both the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan called for a strong national government with three branches.

==The Great Compromise (The Sherman Plan)==

• It provided a bicameral Congress:   * House of Representatives = each state is represented according to its population (satisfied the Virginia plan)   * Senate = each state has two senators (satisfied the New Jersey plan)
• @@BOTH@@ houses of Congress must pass every law.

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