Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan As the virginia convention worked under the cover of secrecy, and leadership of James Madison the first attempt at a Constitution was drawn up. The Virginia Plan was the first shape of the Constitution, and was molded by the New Jersey Plan. The two had different ideas of who and what should govern over all the states and what the powers of this newly formed government will have. The main points of the Virginia Plan was that the governing houses should that of a legislative and a judiciary. The representatives in the legislative branch would be based on the population of the states, and gave the power to the larger states which was disliked by New Jersey because it was on of the smaller states. Due to this
