Advantages of the Virginia Plan

Our current government under the Articles of the Confederation has proved insufficient to serve the needs of our country. The Virginia plan advocates an improved, much stronger national government to preserve the unity of these United States. Some of the advantages of our plan over other plans include:

--A stronger central government will create greater unity between states. If the individual state governments become too powerful, it will weaken our country as a whole.

--A stronger central government will also be better able to regulate interstate and international trade, thus making the economy more stable.

--A bicameral legislature will be able to balance itself.

--A strong executive will be able to keep order and command the armed forces.

--Representatives will be proportional to the populations of each state, so everyone is fairly represented. Representatives of smaller states only have to worry about summarizing the opinions of a few people and will be more likely to be able to voice them all, whereas larger states need more representatives in order to be able to adequately represent the opinions of the whole population.