Since the Articles of Confederation had been gotten rid of, a new structure for government was needed.
The Virginia Plan, created by James Madison and Edmund Randolph, proposed that population of the individual states would influence their representation in electing the president and officials.
Smaller states resisted this plan for fear of not having any real power in the government. William Paterson, a delegate from New Jersey created a different plan in which each state had one vote. Under this plan Congress would have the most power.
"The Philadelphia Convention came to a stand still." Until after the summer of 1787 when things cooled down the delegates started to set aside their differences.
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