The New Jersey and Virginia Plans

The New Jersey and the Virginia Plans benefited both the smaller and larger states as two separate individual plans, with two different missions. The Great Compromise was a major progression towards the unification of all states under a new national government. The fear of creating an administration that was too powerful was the basis for foundation of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles proved to provide a weak government that allowed for most of the …

…met our nations needs more fully than the New Jersey Plan. The Compromise of having the two houses, one with equal representation and the other according to the population was reached after nearly 3 months of earnest and often heated debate. However, by combining all the points from both the plans to make the Great Compromise was an important gesture well needed then and today for maintaining the governmental stability of the United States of America.