<span>The Virginia was important because it influence how
contemporary government functions. Like
today’s Constitution, the Virginia plan government had the executive,
legislative and judiciary. There were
also checks and balances for each branch.
The legislative was <span>more powerful because it would choose the people who would make
up the executive and judicial branches of government. The Virginia plan was countered by the New
Jersey Plan because it appealed to Congress to accept votes based on population
rather than state. The smaller states
objected to this because if the representation was based on population then it
would lead to unequal results.</span></span>
Checks and Balances, the Executive branch is checking Congress
state legislatures often failing to elect a senator in a timely fashion
senators bieng chosen by political macines rather than by the people
are the correct anwsers
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Because most of the voters were in the northern cities. though linconln won them, he only go on average 55% of the vote in each of the states that he won, and douglas took 40%, so he had a lot of the country, but no electoral votes