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It combined the ideas of both the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan to form the structure of the Constitution. It would have three branches and the legislature would have two houses the senate and the house of representatives. In the senate each state had equal votes, but in the house of representatives the amount of votes depended on population.
replace the articles of confederation with an entirely new document. apex
West Virginia was a part of Virginia that was anti-slavery, so they created a border and West Virginia joined the Union.
They did not want to have slavery in the western parts of Virginia, so these western counties broke off to form another state so they could let Virginia join the confederacy and they join the Union
The House of Burgess was the first democratically elected governing body in the British American colonies. It was established at the Virginia General Assembly in 1619 and its electorate was confined to landholding males at least 21 years of age.