Sunday, April 5, 2015

The Virginia plan



James Madison was born 1751 (Virginia). He would later attend Princeton. After that he was called to battle and served as colonel in the revolutionary war. After the war, it was time to build a country, so they enlisted the help of Madison and he wrote the bill of rights and is considered the father of bill of rights because author wasn’t cool enough. Some other important things to note is that, he was sectary of state during Louisiana purchase. He later became president of united states. He also was the president during the War of 1812 or what I like to call it the “revolutionary war 2”. Now to get back on topic He also had a huge say constitutional  convention what this paper is about.
The Virginia plan is basically summed up by the current House of Representatives system where population is determining factor when comes to how many representatives you get. This was proposed by the bigger states for obvious reasons(mostly so they Would have more power). Now smaller states proposed the New Jersey plan what had equal representation for each state regardless of population. The Virginia plan had three branches of Government and they were same as ares, Judicial , legislative and executive. Now the two Legislator house are interesting because one is elected by the people and other one is selected by the other house. They also have a President in this system but he can only be elected one term. This plan also haves the revision council what bills and laws go through. I actually really like this idea because we could higher super intelligent foreigners who could look at issues objectively. I think the system has it flaws such as two legislators with one of them being appointed by other legislator. I feel that wouldn’t really wouldn’t accomplish much. I think Virginia plan is decent in its own right but like any system it has its problems.

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