political science
...re and providence and not on the whims or preferences of people. Chapter two also deals with the articles of confederation, which went into effect in 1781. This created little more than a league of friend ship that could not levy takes or regulate commerce. It also stated that the delegates assembled at Philadelphia at the constitutional convention for what was advertised and authorized by congress as a meeting to revise the articles. The Virginia Plan: when the convention decided to make the Virginia plan its agenda, it had fundamentally altered the nature of its task. The business at hand was not to be the articles and their defects but rather how one should go about designing a true national government. The New Jersey Plan: as the debate went on the representative of the New Jersey and other small states become increasingly worried that the convention was going to write a constitution in which the states would be represented in both house of congress on the basis of population. The American version of representative democracy was based on tow major principle, The Separation Of Power and Federalism. In America political power was the be shared by three separate branches of gover...