Identify the significance of the Virginia Plan during debates over the formation of an American constitutional government.

The Virginia Plan proposed a government where the amount of representation a state would have in the government would be based on that state's population. This idea was not popular among smaller states because they would have less representation. However, the idea in the Virginia Plan is still in place today because our House of Representatives has representatives based off of population while the Senate has equal representation among the states with each state having two representatives.