Had the Constitution's Framers Voted in Favor of the Virginia

question 83

Multiple Choice

Had the Constitution's framers voted in favor of the Virginia Plan, which provided for a bicameral legislature with representation based on their populations or the size of their contributions to national tax revenues, or both, where might most of the power have likely flowed?

• A) To the centers of industry and commerce, large and small, most of them in the north
• B) To large states, such as Virginia, the home of the plan's author, James Madison
• C) To the southern slave states, large and small, given their agricultural export wealth
• D) To small states with higher concentrations of industry and wealthy, elite class citizens

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