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Elbridge Gerry very much liked the Virginia Plan(being from Massachusetts)but, at the same time very much disagreed. He thought that every state should have equal power because that is only fair. So instead Elbridge Gerry favored the rational idea of the Connecticut Compromise (Bicameral). This compromise was that we would have a senate and a house and each state would get the same amount of people at the senate and based on population would be the result of people in the house. This led to other things like the 3/5th's Compromise.
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Why would Pennsylvania and Massachusetts support the Virginia plan?
They would support it because they had very large populations. In the Virginia Plan, the greater the population, the greater the voice. Therefore, larger states would support the plan, but smaller states would have low population, and therefore little voice.
What plan at the Philadelphia Convention favored the large states because it wanted representation based on population?
Virginia plan
Which came first preamble or the Virginia plan?
Virginia plan
Which of these is a plan that offered the Constitutional Convention a proposal for representation?
The New Jersey Plan
What is a example of great compromise?
The new Jersey plan and the Virginia plan
