At the Philadelphia Convention, the proposed plan to create a Congress where representation was distributed according to population was called the ________.

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The plan to create a Congress where representation was distributed according to population was called the Virginia Plan, which was put forward by James Madison and Edmund Randolph. The New Jersey Plan, on the other hand, proposed a single-chamber legislature in which each state would have an equal vote, regardless of population. The other choices (Mason Proposal, New Hampshire Plan, Morris Plan) are not among the plans proposed at the Philadelphia Convention.

At the Philadelphia Convention, the Proposed Plan to Create a Congress