Ranking the Plans

1. Connecticut Compromise

• Saved the convention
• Equal Representation
• Best of New Jersey and Virginia Plan

2. 3/5 Compromise

• Voting
• Number of electoral college votes
• 3/5 count for representation, but need to pay taxes on them

3. The Virginia Plan

• Three Branches
• Based on population

4. New Jersey Plan

• Unicameral
• Equality

5. Commerce-Slave Trade

• North wanted to abolish slavery completely
• Bans slave trade in 1808
• Could not touch the slave trade for twenty years.
• 90% of what congress does is commerce

6. Bundle of Compromises

• Treaty making process
• President negotiates with congress