Because as industrialization grew and spread throughout Europe, competition for raw materials increased. Consequently, some European industrialists encouraged their governments to colonize African countries as a method of guaranteeing sources of raw materials.
A legislative branch was proposed by the Virginia Plan and this was a Bicameral legislature consisting of two chambers. Three branches were involved in this plan namely Legislative, Executive and Judicial.
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- This plan is mainly notable for its role in setting an overall agenda and also for setting the idea of Population-weighted representation.
- Along with the New Jersey plan, this plan existed to support small state's interests.
- The scope of resolutions succeeded in broadening the debate for encompassing fundamental values to the structure and powers of the national government.
- The main principles stated that "Each of the states would be represented to the number of free inhabitants. This resulted in the states with a large population having more representatives than the smaller states".
- The legislative branch would have the power to veto state laws if the states were deemed incompetent was a proposal put by the Virginia Plan.
A person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, especially a dispute.
