Had the Constitution's framers voted in favor of the Virginia Plan, which provided for a bicameral legislature with representation based on their populations or the size of their contributions to national tax revenues, or both, where might most of the power have likely flowed?
A) To the centers of industry and commerce, large and small, most of them in the north
B) To large states, such as Virginia, the home of the plan's author, James Madison
C) To the southern slave states, large and small, given their agricultural export wealth
D) To small states with higher concentrations of industry and wealthy, elite class citizens
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