Virginia Plan

Target entity: Virginia Plan
Context triple: [Constitutional Convention, proposedPlan, Virginia Plan]

• A. Articles of Confederation
  The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution of the United States, creating a loose confederation of sovereign states with a weak central government prior to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
• B. Constitutional Convention
  The Constitutional Convention was the 1787 gathering of delegates in Philadelphia that drafted the United States Constitution, establishing the framework of the federal government.
• C. Northwest Ordinance
  The Northwest Ordinance was a 1787 act of the U.S. Congress that established the process for governing and admitting new states from the Northwest Territory, setting important precedents for westward expansion and the prohibition of slavery in that region.
• D. Great Compromise
  The Great Compromise was the 1787 agreement at the U.S. Constitutional Convention that created a bicameral legislature by combining proportional representation in the House of Representatives with equal representation for each state in the Senate.
• E. Three-Fifths Compromise
  The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement in the early United States that counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation in Congress, entrenching slavery’s political power.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Virginia Plan
Target entity description: The Virginia Plan was a proposal at the 1787 Constitutional Convention that called for a strong national government with a bicameral legislature based on state population, shaping the framework of the U.S. Constitution.

• A. Articles of Confederation
  The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution of the United States, creating a loose confederation of sovereign states with a weak central government prior to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
• B. Constitutional Convention
  The Constitutional Convention was the 1787 gathering of delegates in Philadelphia that drafted the United States Constitution, establishing the framework of the federal government.
• C. Northwest Ordinance
  The Northwest Ordinance was a 1787 act of the U.S. Congress that established the process for governing and admitting new states from the Northwest Territory, setting important precedents for westward expansion and the prohibition of slavery in that region.
• D. Great Compromise
  The Great Compromise was the 1787 agreement at the U.S. Constitutional Convention that created a bicameral legislature by combining proportional representation in the House of Representatives with equal representation for each state in the Senate.
• E. Three-Fifths Compromise
  The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement in the early United States that counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation in Congress, entrenching slavery’s political power.
• F. None of above. chosen