Compare And Contrast The Three Plans At The Constitutional Convention Of 1787

On May 25 1787, the most powerful men in our history met in Philadelphia to create a guide for the Democracy that we enjoy today. There were three plans at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
The Virginia Plan was drafted by James Madison, from Virginia, and presented to the delegates by Edmund Randolph on May 29th, 1787 who was also from Virginia.
The hope behind this plan was to create a central government that could collect taxes, regulate foreign and interstate trade, and also be able to replace state laws with federal laws. This proposal would create central government with a powerful bicameral congress. It would consist of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Their members would be chosen by their state legislatures. The Congress would be controlled by the three largest population states, Virginia, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The national legislature seats would be filled based on the state’s population size. This branch would also have the power to appoint executive and judiciary branches that could veto state laws.
The Great Compromise/Connecticut Plan had a vision of a two house legislature. The House of Representatives and the Senate. The selection process for the House of Representatives would be based on a state’s population, and the Senate selection process would be the similar for all states. Roger Sherman, a politician from Connecticut, suggested this plan and based its framework on both the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan. It created a process with the desire for a fair, balanced, and practical plan of action to appoint a State legislature which took into account the population size, and to eliminate any potential favoritism that could be gained by states based on their respective sizes. The importance of this plan was after its ratification the delegates were able to move on to deal with other future