<P> On the other hand, Delaware categorically forbade any alteration of the Articles one - state, equal vote, one - vote - only provision in the Articles Congress . The Convention would have a great deal of work to do to reconcile the many expectations in the chamber . At the same time, delegates wanted to finish their work by fall harvest and its commerce . </P> <P> May 29, Edmund Randolph (VA) proposed the Virginia Plan that would serve as the unofficial agenda for the Convention . It was weighted toward the interests of the larger, more populous states . The intent was to meet the purposes set out in the Articles of Confederation, "common defense, security of liberty and general welfare". The Virginia Plan was national, authority flowed from the people . If the people will ratify them, changes for better republican government and national union should be proposed . </P> <P> Much of the Virginia Plan was adopted . All the powers in the Articles transfer to the new government . Congress has two houses, the' house' apportioned by population . It can enact laws affecting more than one state and Congress can override a veto . The President can enforce the law . The Supreme Court and inferior courts rule on international, U.S. and state law . The Constitution is the supreme law and all state officers swear to uphold the Constitution . Every state is a republic, and new states can be admitted . The Articles Congress continued until the new system started . Amendments are possible without Congress . The Convention recommendations went to Congress, from them to the states . State legislatures set the election rules for ratification conventions, and the people "expressly" chose representatives to consider and decide about the Constitution . </P> <P> June 15, William Patterson (NJ) proposed the Convention minority's New Jersey Plan . It was weighted toward the interests of the smaller, less populous states . The intent was to preserve the states from a plan to "destroy or annihilate" them . The New Jersey Plan was purely federal, authority flowed from the states . Gradual change should come from the states . If the Articles could not be amended, then advocates argued that should be the report from the Convention to the states . </P>

4. how many houses of the legislature were set up under the constitution