You can learn more about this process on Founders Online, a searchable archive of the correspondence and other writings of several of the Founders of the United States government. Historians have debated the exact text of the original resolutions as submitted on May 29th, using existing manuscript copies to understand what was originally proposed. Both would use population as a basis for dividing seats among the states. It describes two houses: one with members elected by the people for three-year terms and the other composed of older leaders elected by the state legislatures for seven-year terms.
This page of the amended plan illustrates Madison's ideas for a legislature. This document shows the resolutions "as Altered, Amended, and Agreed to in a Committee of the Whole House," a third of the way through the convention. The document shown here from June 13, 1787, is not the Virginia Plan as originally submitted by Randolph on May 29th (that original draft of the 15 resolutions has never been found). The Virginia Plan went through several revisions before it was finalized. Constitution: a national government consisting of three branches, with checks and balances to prevent the abuse of power. At the Constitutional Convention on May 29, 1787, Virginia delegate Edmund Randolph proposed what became known as "The Virginia Plan." Written primarily by fellow Virginian James Madison, the plan traced the broad outlines of what would become the U.S.