James Madison and Benjamin Franklin

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James Madison studied both ancient and modern confederacies and decided that the confederacy wouldn't last if it only made rules to direct the state. The confederacy had to be good for the individuals of each state. Madison wrote a paper about confederacies and drew up an outline of a new system of government. This outline became the basis of the Virginia Plan. He supported the use of population in order to give larger states more power. He also recommended that the lower legislature be elected for shorter periods of time.

Madison kept careful records of the Conv



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