Under the Virginia Plan

question 16

Multiple Choice

Under the Virginia Plan

• A)the new Constitution would be only marginally stronger than the Articles of Confederation.
• B)slaves would count as four-fifths of a person when apportioning legislative representatives.
• C)large states would have more representatives in both chambers of Congress.
• D)Congress could not regulate either interstate trade or international trade.
• E)two of the northern states would have had no representatives at all in Congress.

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