The New Jersey Plan was favored by smaller states because it gave equal representation to all states. The Virginia Plan, in contrast, distributed representation based on population, which naturally favored larger states.
Our constitution created a system of checks and balances to insure that no one branch of government becomes too strong and be able to control all of the government
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South Carolina was the first because they though that their way of life was threatened from the election of President Abraham Lincoln.
The French aimed to reform the absolute rule of Louis XVI. The Americans provided a working model of revolutionary success that wasn’t lost on the French.