When reviewing plans for a new constitution, smaller states opposed the Plan. This plan proposed the idea of a
legislature. The plan also specified that the United States would function as a
. This plan received
opposition from the smaller states for proposing that representation in Congress be based on population. These states favored the
Plan, which called for equal representation in Congress.

Plan proposed at the constitutional convention that called for a unicameral legislature with equal representation from each state. Plan proposed at the constitutional convention that called a bicameral legislature with equal representation in the senate and representation based on the states population in the house.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.