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 Virginia Plan proposed a bicameral legislature consisting of a House of Representatives and a Senate, where the number of representatives in both chambers would be based on a state's population. This plan was ultimately adopted, with some modifications, and became the current system of representation in Congress. The other options listed (New Hampshire Plan, Marshall Plan, New Jersey Plan) did not propose a system of representation based on population.

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