Madison proposed the Virginia Plan, which would give representation in Congress according to total population, including a proportion of slaves.

The Virginia Plan recommended a consolidated national government, generally favoring the most populated states.

In the traditional understanding of the discussion, the larger states proposed the Virginia Plan, which allocated representation to each state proportional to its population.

This proposal was known as the Virginia Plan.

As the main author of the Virginia Plan, he exercised the power of the first draft, setting the terms of debate.

The greatest number of these references occurred during the discussion of the proposal known as the Virginia Plan.

The Virginia Plan was national, authority flowed from the people.

The Virginia Plan called for the Congress to elect the President.

The Virginia Plan threatened to limit the smaller states' power by making both houses of the legislature proportionate to population.

On 14 and 15 June 1787, a small-state caucus met to create a response to the Virginia Plan.