<span>The US Congress adopted a compromise between the New Jersey and Virginia plans that allowed for population-proportional representation in the House of Representatives that favored the Virginia Plan, while adopting equal representation between the states in the Senate, a move which favored the New Jersey Plan.</span>
<span>The Russian president who called for public demonstrations against the hard-line Communists' attempt to retake the government in 1991 was </span>Boris Yeltsin.
