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William Paterson, the former judge and governor of New Jersey, presented the plan at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, Important takeaways The Great Compromise settled matters of representation in the federal government. The Three-Fifths Compromise settled matters of representation when it came to the enslaved population of southern states and the importation of enslaved Africans. Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, both of the Connecticut delegation, created a compromise that, in a sense, blended the Virginia large-state and New Jersey small-state proposals regarding congressional apportionment.
Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Social studies What was the New Jersey plan and who did it favor benefit big states or small states? Social studies. Ben Davis December 31, What was the New Jersey plan and who did it favor benefit big states or small states? What did the New Jersey plan help most? What is the purpose of the New Jersey plan? Ultimately, its main contribution was determining the method for apportionment of the Senate and retaining a federal character in the constitution.
What was ultimately included in the Constitution was a modified form of this plan. In the Committee of Detail, Benjamin Franklin added the requirement that revenue bills originate in the House.
As such, the Senate would bring a federal character to the government, not because senators were elected by state legislatures, but because each state was equally represented. The Virginia delegation took the initiative to frame the debate by immediately drawing up and presenting a proposal, for which delegate James Madison is given chief credit.
It was, however, Edmund Randolph, the Virginia governor at the time, who officially put it before the convention on May 29, in the form of 15 resolutions. The scope of the resolutions, going well beyond tinkering with the Articles of Confederation, succeeded in broadening the debate to encompass fundamental revisions to the structure and powers of the national government.
The resolutions proposed, for example, a new form of national government having three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. One contentious issue facing the convention was the manner in which large and small states would be represented in the legislature. The contention was whether there would be equal representation for each state regardless of its size and population, or proportionate to population giving larger states more votes than less-populous states.
The Virginia Plan proposed a bicameral legislature, a legislative branch with two chambers. This legislature would contain the dual principles of rotation in office and recall, applied to the lower house of the national legislature.
Large states supported this plan, while smaller states generally opposed it. In addition to dealing with legislative representation, the Virginia Plan ed other issues as well, with many provisions that did not make it into the Constitution that emerged. It called for a national government of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The people would elect members for one of the two legislative chambers.
Members of that chamber would then elect the second chamber from nominations submitted by state legislatures. The legislative branch would then choose the executive branch. The terms of office were unspecified, but the executive and members of the popularly elected legislative chamber could not be elected for an undetermined time afterward.
The legislative branch would have the power to negate state laws if they were deemed incompatible with the articles of union. The concept of checks and balances was embodied in a provision that a council composed of the executive and selected members of the judicial branch could veto legislative acts. An unspecified legislative majority could override their veto.
Paterson was also known as the primary author of the New Jersey Plan during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The less populous states were adamantly opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to the more populous states, and so proposed an alternative plan that would have kept the one-vote-per-state representation under one legislative body from the Articles of Confederation.
This position reflected the belief that the states were independent entities, and as they entered the United States of America freely and individually, so they remained. The plan proposed that the Articles of Confederation should be amended as follows:. Ultimately, the New Jersey Plan was rejected as a basis for a new constitution. During the Constitutional Convention, the most contentious disputes revolved around the composition of the Presidency and the Judiciary.
Most of the convention was spent deciding these issues, while the powers of legislature, executive, and judiciary were not heavily disputed. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia : During the Constitutional Convention, some the most contentious disputes revolved around the composition of the Presidency and the Judiciary. By the time the rest of the Virginia delegation arrived, most of the Pennsylvania delegation had arrived as well.
The delegates agreed with Madison that the executive function had to be independent of the legislature. In their aversion to kingly power, American legislatures had created state governments where the executive was beholden to the legislature and by the late s, this was widely seen as being a source of paralysis. The Confederation government was the ultimate example of this. Portrait of James Madison : James Madison authored the Virginia Plan, which contained important provisions on the presidency and judiciary.
Madison, however, did not believe that the judiciary should be truly independent, but rather be obligated to the legislature not the executive. By insisting on the independence of the judiciary, Madison stepped away from the Articles of Confederation to create something entirely new.
At the convention, some sided with Madison that the legislature should choose judges, while others believed the president should choose judges. A compromise was eventually reached that the president should pick judges and the Senate confirm them. One of the most pressing issues during the early debate was the election of the president. Few agreed with Madison that the executive should be elected by the legislature.
There was widespread concern with direct election, because information diffused so slowly in the late eighteenth century and because of concerns that people would only vote for candidates from their state or region.
A vocal minority wanted the national executive to be chosen by the governors of the states. This was one of the last major issues to be resolved and was done so in the Electoral College. At the time, before the formation of modern political parties, there was widespread concern that candidates would routinely fail to secure a majority of electors in the Electoral College.
The method of resolving this problem, therefore, was a contested issue. Most thought that the house should then choose the president, since it most closely reflected the will of the people. To resolve this dispute, the convention agreed that the house would elect the president if no candidate had an Electoral College majority, but that each state delegation would vote as a block, rather than individually.
Electoral College : The Constitutional Convention agreed that the house would elect the president if no candidate had an Electoral College majority, but that each state delegation would vote as a block, rather than individually. It also created the Office of the Vice President whose only roles were to succeed a president unable to complete a term of office and to preside over the Senate.
The committee transferred important powers from the Senate to the president who now, for example, would be given the power to make treaties and appoint ambassadors. The problem had resulted from the understanding that the president would be chosen by Congress; the decision to have the president be chosen instead by an electoral college reduced the chance of the president becoming beholden to Congress, so a shorter term with eligibility for re-election became a viable option.
The report from the Committee on Detail at the Constitutional Convention constituted the first draft of the United States Constitution. It was convened to problems in governing the United States of America following independence from Great Britain. Before the Constitution was drafted, the nearly four million inhabitants of the thirteen newly-independent states were governed under the Articles of Confederation, created by the Second Continental Congress.
However, the chronically underfunded Confederation government, as originally organized, was inadequate for managing the various conflicts that arose among the states. Due to the difficulty of travel in the late 18 th century, very few of the selected delegates were present on the designated day of May 14, It was not until May 25 that a quorum of seven states was secured.
The first area of major dispute was the manner by which the lower house would be apportioned. A minority wanted all states would have equal weight. Most accepted the desire among the slave states to count slaves as part of the population, although their servile status was raised as a major objection against this.
It was chaired by John Rutledge. This report constituted the first draft of the United States Constitution. Much of what was contained in the final document was present in this draft. John Rutledge : The Constitutional Convention adjourned to await the report of the Committee of Detail, which was to produce a first draft of the Constitution.
Many details recorded by the Committee had never been discussed during the Convention, but the Committee viewed these details as uncontroversial and unlikely to be challenged. Examples of these details include the Speech and Debate Clause, which grants members of Congress immunity for comments made in their jobs and the rules for organizing the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Another month of discussion and minor refinement followed. During this month, few attempts to alter the Rutledge draft were successful. Some delegates wanted to add property qualifications for people to hold office.
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