The chief provisions are that it is about protecting civil liberties, while giving the country power of surveillance over entities that may be considered to be agents of foreign power. The patriot act was created in order to protect the US citizens against foreign acts of terrorism.
Virginia Plan proposed a form of Congress in which it would be similar to the House of Representatives. Each state would have a safe depending on their size. New Jersey plan favored the smaller states instead, each state having 1 vote, Senate style. These clashing ideas created the Great Compromise, combining both.
If my memory serves me well, sharecropping most often harm African American sharecroppers.
An organization that has contact people at the top and the chief executive officer at the bottom is known as an "inverted organization," since this common structure is the other way around.
