<P> The Albany Congress discussed the plan . After a committee reviewed different plans offered by delegates, its members chose Franklin's plan with some small modifications . Benjamin Chew, then a young lawyer from Dover, Pennsylvania, served as secretary, and Richard Peters and Isaac Norris, both from Philadelphia, were among the members of this committee and the Pennsylvania delegation . </P> <P> It went beyond the original scope of the Congress, which was to develop a plan of defense related to near - term threats by France . The northern colonies were most concerned, as they shared a border with the French colony in Canada, but the mid-Atlantic colonies were also affected by differing loyalties of various Native American nations, usually related to their trading with France or Great Britain . The New England and northern tier colonies had long been subject to raiding from Canada during times of conflict . The Albany Plan was the first proposed unification of the colonies for the purposes of defense . </P> <P> The Plan called for a general government to be administered by a President General, to be appointed and supported by the Crown, and a Grand Council to consist of delegates nominated by (the lower houses of) the colonial assemblies . Under the plan, delegates from the colonies would be chosen roughly proportionate to colony size--from a minimum of two to a maximum of seven for Virginia - but each colony would have only one vote and decision making was by unanimous consensus . Proposed powers included treaty making, and raising army and naval forces; and, most significantly, included the right of taxation . </P> <P> After the larger group of delegates discussed their issues and objections, they resolved most of them and adopted the Plan . They sent copies of letters to each of the Colonial Assemblies and to the British Board of Trade in London, which had originally suggested the Congress . The colonial assemblies and the British representatives rejected the Albany Plan . </P>

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