Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.
Committee consisting of all delegates to the Convention.
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Committee convened, first two resolutions of Virginia Plan considered. The form of a national government and how to determine representation debated.
[Virginia Plan as Amended by Committee of the Whole House]
3. Resolved that a national Government ought to be established consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive & Judiciary.
2. Resolved therefore that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned and not accordingto the Quotas of contribution, or to the pnumber of frese inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem bestem in different cases.
3. Resolved that the national Legislature ought to consist of two branches.
4. Resolved that the members of the first branch of the national legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States.