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The national government would be central. There would be three branches of government and a system of checks and balances.

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Lower house elected by the people

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The congress under the Virgina plan?

The Congress under the Virginia plan would have been a unicameral legislature with representation based on a state's population like the House of Representatives that we have today.


Who would elect members of the upper house in bicameral legislation under the Virginia Plan?

the members of the lower house


What are the powers the legislature would have under the Albany plan?

The powers that the legislature would have under the Albany Pan Of Union is the power to collect taxes, raise troops, and regulate trade.


According to the Virginia plan how was the legislature to be set up?

The plan called for a two house legislature, and a court system. The members of the lower house of the legislature would be elected by the people. The members of the upper house would be chosen by the lower house.


What type of representation would states under the Virginia Plan?

According to the Virginia Plan, states with a large population would have more representatives than smaller states. Large states supported this plan, while smaller states generally opposed it. Under the New Jersey Plan, the unicameral legislature with one vote per state was inherited from the Articles of Confederation.


What change to the structure of government did the virginia plan suggest?

The Virginia Plan, a suggested plan of government for the US Constitution, would have a two-house legislature apportioned on the basis of free population, and that legislature would select (elect) the office holders in both the Executive and Judicial branches of government.


What change of structure of government did the Virginia Plan suggest?

The Virginia Plan, a suggested plan of government for the US Constitution, would have a two-house legislature apportioned on the basis of free population, and that legislature would select (elect) the office holders in both the Executive and Judicial branches of government.


What change to the structure of the government did the Virginia Plan suggest?

The Virginia Plan, a suggested plan of government for the US Constitution, would have a two-house legislature apportioned on the basis of free population, and that legislature would select (elect) the office holders in both the Executive and Judicial branches of government.


What new state was created during the the civil war?

That would be West Virginia. Virginia's northwesternmost counties did not wish to secede when the state's legislature voted to do so.


What type of states would have more power under the Virginia Plan?

States with more residents would have benefited, because the Virginia Plan for Congress would have given states representation strictly on the basis of population. But under the Connecticut Compromise, the legislature was made bicameral, with only the House being apportioned by population, and under the 3/5 Compromise, the total numbers of slaves was not counted either.


Did the Virginia Plan propose that all bills to raise money would originate in the lower house of the legislature?

No. The "Connecticut Compromise" used aspects of both the Virginia (large state) Plan and the New Jersey (small state) Plan and created a bicameral legislature.


What did states with large populationfavorthe Virginia plan?

The Virginia Plan, in having a unicameral legislature whose delegates are assigned by population (much like having just the House of Representatives), favored large states, because their large populations would give them power.