<Li> The New Jersey Plan proposed that the legislative department be a unicameral body with one vote per state . Generally favoring the less - populous states, it used the philosophy of English Whigs such as Edmund Burke to rely on received procedure and William Blackstone to emphasize sovereignty of the legislature . This position reflected the belief that the states were independent entities and, as they entered the United States of America freely and individually, remained so . </Li> <P> On May 31, the Convention devolved into a "Committee of the Whole" to consider the Virginia Plan . On June 13, the Virginia resolutions in amended form were reported out of committee . The New Jersey plan was put forward in response to the Virginia Plan . </P> <P> A "Committee of Eleven" (one delegate from each state represented) met from July 2 to 16 to work out a compromise on the issue of representation in the federal legislature . All agreed to a republican form of government grounded in representing the people in the states . For the legislature, two issues were to be decided: how the votes were to be allocated among the states in the Congress, and how the representatives should be elected . In its report, now known as the Connecticut Compromise (or "Great Compromise"), the committee proposed proportional representation for seats in the House of Representatives based on population (with the people voting for representatives), and equal representation for each State in the Senate (with each state's legislators generally choosing their respective senators), and that all money bills would originate in the House . </P> <P> The Great Compromise ended the stalemate between "patriots" and "nationalists", leading to numerous other compromises in a spirit of accommodation . There were sectional interests to be balanced by the Three - Fifths Compromise; reconciliation on Presidential term, powers, and method of selection; and jurisdiction of the federal judiciary . </P>

The united states established its constitution in 1787